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Harvard seems to be fairly launched in her career in lacrosse. It is now important that this should be made a successful one. Whatever students undertake in the name of Harvard, must be done well for the sake of the name, if for no other reason. In the case of lacrosse, however, there is much in the game itself which entitles it to a prosperous continuance. It has all the characteristics which are necessary to make an athletic sport stay permanently in favor; it offers an opportunity for vigorous exercise to a class of men who without it would find...
...record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover of poetry is the lover of wisdom...
...however, from habit, from loyalty, and perhaps from wholesome fear, to put themselves in the attitude of rebels. But when the detachment at the bridge fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force of militia, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake fire!" This was the beginning of the Concord fight. The day went more and more against the regulars, and about noon they began to retreat. The farmers pursued them to Lexington, where, near two in the afternoon their numbers were augmented by a large reinforcement sent out from Boston, under...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the students at large. - (a) Waste of time watching games. - (b) Injury to health watching games. - (x) Dampness and cold. - (c) Hysterical excitement at periods of the great games. - (d) Dulls sense of honor. - (x) Little meannesses condoned for the sake of victory. - (e) Dulls feelings. - (f) Establishes false ideals...
...marked artistic ability. One day he found a book on art by Leonardo da Vinci. From that moment he gave his father no rest until he was apprenticed to an itinerant artist named Steele, with whom he stayed two years. He then moved to Kendal, where, unfortunately for her sake as well his own, he married Mary Abbott. At Kendal he lived until 1762, painting heads for three guineas apiece, and fancy sketches, which he raffled in the town hall...