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This higher view of religion, that one should push on, past the mere signs, to the power which lies behind them, is too often forgotten. Much as men will labor for mental civilization, they wish to gain easily, at a single step, a perfect faith and thorough understanding of the truth. They forget that no valuable result can be won without a struggle, and become discouraged at the very first difficulty...
Education and education only can lift up the South, improve the condition of the people, and bring them in perfect harmony with the rest of the Union...
...this is the last week before the regular performances, every effort is being exerted towards getting the men in perfect shape by Monday. The cast is being coached daily by Professor de Sumichrast in the spacious hall of the Colonial Club; the ballet dancers are practicing daily in the G. A. R. assembly room under the supervision of V. Munro '96; while the finale, the ceremony of the conferring of the doctor's degree is being arranged so as to be one of the most impressive parts of the programme. The latter, unique in character, will be both imposing...
...middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...
President E. B. Andrews of Brown University, says: "For those in perfect health and trained to it, football is safer than either rowing, yachting, gunning or running hounds. Rowing appears to be many times as fatal. So is baseball. Even tennis is worse...