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...Stonewall Jackson unsheathes his sacred sword." Both succeeded because "labor, continuous labor, was their motto," and without this no one can succeed. "Cross Plains needed some person to teach her sons and daughters this, and when they employed this modern 'Socrates,' it was the right man in the right place." The modern Socrates is the "stern, inflexible father and teacher, President John M. Walton," whose "fame has spread like the little cloud that arose out of the Arabian deserts, no larger than a man's hand, and has increased till its shadow rests over the most remote parts of Asia...
...have churches here." We do not understand by this, however, that the Methodists, Baptists, etc., in Gallatin are really heathens because they are distinguished from the "Christians." We do not see clearly the distinction, but we cannot believe that heathens form a large proportion of the inhabitants of a place where "the public taste is so elevated as to frown down any immoral or insubordinate action...
...PROPOSITION is now being considered by the Directors of the Memorial Hall Association, of such importance to all students of the University that I desire to call attention to it through the columns of the Crimson. It has been proposed, in addition to our usual limited choice, to place upon the tables lists of extra dishes that may be ordered by such students as are dissatisfied with the regular fare, and are willing, by paying a little more, to arrange the menu to better suit their respective tastes. These extra dishes are to be prepared by the steward, and furnished...
...amuse themselves, or rather that they try to think that they amuse themselves, by dressing well, lolling in comfortable arm-chairs, and yawning out between the puffs of tobacco-smoke all sorts of cynical complaints about the stupidity of the little world in which it has pleased Providence to place them...
...acquaint them with the objections which must be met before satisfactory conclusions can be reached," the result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique of Judgment is recommended in place of Shopenhauer and Hartmann. The Committee think that Junior Logic might be removed to the Freshman year, and even to the preparatory schools, were they what they should be. In Ethics they noticed "an appearance of slightness and vagueness which is perhaps inseparable from the mental condition of many...