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...This question was actually asked on board one of the Cunard steamships when it was just leaving Sandy Hook...
SEVERAL invitations from the McGill men have been received by our Football Club. The question of their acceptance has been referred to the Executive Committee...
...subject was "The Gain of History"; or, as the author states more fully, "Do the changes of History imply corresponding Gains?" By History is meant the life of mankind since the Aryan dispersion. Are we better off than our forefathers of four thousand years ago? Before answering this question, Professor Everett seeks to remove certain prejudices. One of these is the natural belief that all is for the best, from which proceeds, especially in youth, an enthusiastic trust in progress; but, even retaining a faith in optimism, might we not reasonably suppose that, by a system of compensations, the world...
Without asking whether the results that Spencer draws from this impossibility of certain knowledge are true, the searching question is put, Is it a thing to exult over...
With pleasure we drop this whole unprofitable question, having said only what we considered necessary in support of the position taken by Harvard. The unpleasant things we have considered it our duty to say are not directed against Yale, but against the unadvised conduct of its representative, in rebuking whom we are confident a large party of Yale men would join us, although the Courant sees fit to excuse him by the use of most dangerous casuistry...