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...that might be proposed, make the Union all that they could make a new society. In fact the members of the Union are likely to do this themselves before long. The account of the arrangements for the Yale debate and the editorial approval of them in Friday's "CRIMSON" rather tend to destroy the effect which the second "94" man tries to make. The Harvard Union alone has kept alive the interest in speaking in the University, the Harvard Union has arranged the Yale debates which have given such a stimulus to the interest in speaking; the Harvard Union offers...
...winter song is much more vigorous, but as the birds seldom sing the song is not well known. Our present visitors have uttered no sound but a rather plain. live chirp and a wild though sweet call note...
...spirit generally manifested here is not now one of indignation and resentment for the repeated refusals of the Eastern universities to row Cornell. It is, rather, one of hopeful expectation, based on the consideration of the prospects of an international race and the conviction that Harvard and Yale will in time see that the best interests of aquatics require them to row a college which has sent out victorious crews year after year and which has established a record which compares with the best made...
...Black opened his lecture with a rather amusing description of the ordinary Scotch character, showing the traits in that character to which the early poetry appealed and the reasons which gave rise to the poetry itself. It was +++ the natural scenery of Scotland, not the hills and rivers and lakes that inspired Scotch poetry but rather the deeds of war that had been done on these hills and rivers and lakes. The poetry came spontaneously from the hearts of a people whose life had always been one of aggression, a struggle for existence. The soul, then, of all this poetry...
...once gets this idea, prayer loses all significance for him. He will no longer pray when he can expect no reply. Again, it is claimed that the answering of prayers involves a violation of the laws of nature. But God does not interfere with these laws. He is rather constantly working in nature. People speak of special answers to prayer as if to imply that God only occasionally interferes in the affairs of this world. This is not so. His providence is general, and it is when this providence has temporarily rendered itself visible that a prayer is said...