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...choir sang the following anthems: "Come Holy Ghost." - Dowland. "Lord, for Thy Tender Mercies Sake." - Farrant. "Turn Thy Face from My Sins." - Sullivan...
Chase Mellen's suggestions of methods for arousing interest in rowing at Harvard and Yale must have a peculiar significance for us in the light of our experiments at the Weld Boat House. Why, he asks, do not Harvard and Yale have more races for the sake of developing material. At Oxford, there are a great many races, which afford an opportunity for men to row who are not good enough for varsity eights, but who may develope into good men. Why not, he says, have more races similar to our present "Class Races...
...obey and as far as concerns the essentials of good city government, one feels that in the best German cities one has the most substantial administration of the world. The German method offers a contrast to that of the United States since the former is government for the sake of the city, and the latter is government for the sake of the officials...
...present themselves most prominently to a citizen of the United States. In finishing, Professor Peabody remarks that the American people, who are certainly the quickest-witted of the nations, will not long be so dull as to keep a protective tariff on our way of municipal work for the sake of party politics. It may be a wise policy for us to shut out of the country the importation of good Saxon stockings, but at least we might have free trade in good Saxon ideas...
...Physics just as in the elements of Chemistry is essential to a good education whatever specialty the student may take up. The making of these Physics lectures voluntary, then, instead of compulsory in no way detracts from their importance; it merely invites the men to listen for the sake of learning something to their benefit instead of compelling them to attend in order to pass an examination...