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...things for the minister to teach. A definite creed is not necessary, if he puts before men the things which he feels would benefit them if they knew them. All considerations of money must be laid aside. The life of the man who cultivates himself for the sake of his fellow men, is the finesty. Not the misery of human life, but the knowledge of this misery, is increasing. The remedy for this is for men to be not paralyzed by it, but to be inspired by it to do all the good of which they are capable. A ministers...
...practice of their profession, or in teaching to numskulls the elements of a noble science. A very eminent physician once said to a wealthy young man who was undecided whether to start a chemical factory or to follow up chemistry in a purely theoretical way, - "For Heaven's sake devote yourself to pure science; we need men like you, whose brains need not be split up in seeking for their daily bread...
...therefore saved all society expenses. It is answered that they have their own teams to support, and that those teams are more expensive than other class organizations; the upper classes can simply point to the similarity of conditions in their own cases and ask that for the sake of courtesy, if for no other more patriotic motive, their successors in their turn bear the burdens they have borne. Every freshman class undergoes the same test as to its interest in college athletics, and no class, except the present, has evaded it. We cannot believe that the class...
...many men are now rowing for the same reason that the men who tried for the eleven last year played foot-ball; that is, for the sake of the credit of being on the team and of getting the uniforms. Such motives are perfectly contemptible, and the sooner eighty-nine realizes that their captain and the people who are coaching them know more about rowing than they do, the better it will be for their prospects of winning the June race...
...library, and especially those who draw books, are guilty of the grossest carelessness. And word has recently come to us from Mr. Winsor, the librarian, which seems to imply that this carelessness, presumably by processes of evolution, is passing into something of a far worse nature. For the sake of euphemism, however, and that we may not run the risk of making any great mistakes, we will still continue to call this failure to return books to the library "carelessness," and permit those who may read this to give to the word as broad a meaning as they...