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...recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation...
...death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought art truth rather than religious truth. For them a Venus was as good as a Madonna. They were interested in art for art's sake, not for the sake of religion...
Such, then, is the Harvard C. S. Reform Club. Its work cannot well be carried on with a small membership. To get "Good Government" at club rates we need one hundred and fifty members. Those who are carrying on the work in the college do so for the sake of the reform. It is a work which should appeal to the patriotic spirit of every American, and especially of every college man. I ask every man interested in pure and efficient government if the support of the club is not a worthy object of his consideration? Membership blanks and copies...
...follows Christ for the sake of heaven is not virtuous, he is only seeking heaven as a reward, he is not seeking it for its own sake...
...been made throughout the country by this effort to reduce athletics to their proper level. A more propitious state of affairs could not be desired. The college world is evidently willing to be influenced by reforms which are beyond a doubt instituted wholly from unselfish feelings and for the sake of the future of college sports. We cannot expect any further results than this at present. Harvard and Yale have practically united on an issue; they have taken their first steps and will be closely watched to see how well their theories fit in with practice. It is not unreasonable...