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...more scientific so far as the relations of the batsman and the bowler or pitcher are concerned. I note that so far as the actual contest between ball and ball is concerned, the two games seem fairly equal. Though in base-ball pitching, a more difficult scientific problem is involved, it cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there is no room for chance to come in; at least we may neglect such...
...have dipped into matters of the kind without losing their faculty of criticism in the enthusiasm natural to the pursuit - that the first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial and most wise attitude toward the contest, swayed as we are by considerations entirely different from those which...
...Whoever seeks to solve the problem of Prayer-and-Providence' (namely, whether Supplication is only a vehicle for Aspiration), should ponder 'The Prayer of the Presidents;' a model prayer, devoted as the verse of Wesley, dignified as the style of Washington, undogmatic and rational - not to say witty - as the words of Lincoln...
...communication printed in another column sheds some new light upon the much discussed library book problem. We have received and published so many complaints regarding the use of books or rather the abuse of the privileges offered in the use of them that the general opinion must have obtained that the students were an irresponsible set of mischievous school children, and also that the library management was very inadequate. While rare instances of abuse may have occurred, we feel sure that a grain of patience added to a grain of comprehension could be taken by the grumblers with good effect...
...next thesis in Philosophy 13 will consist of an exposition of the first part of Spinoza's Ethus and a discussion of some one problem in that part. It will be due on January...