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...graduate advisory committee of the Inter-Collegiate Football Association held a meeting Saturday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the object being to select umpires for the championship games. Each college in the league sent its representative, and the following appointments were made...
...captains of the different teams will be appointed by the Mott Haven captain, and they with the advice of Mr. Lathrop will select the men for the teams...
There will be a set of handicap games at Princeton this afternoon to select men for the Mott Haven team...
When the leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was asked to select a program which would be appropriate to a concert in memory of James Russell Lowell, he chose three works which were, as far as possible, the expression of all that is noble in man. By grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed...
...draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces of unearthly majesty about him; they would witness from time to time his trial under the various events of life and would still find, whether they...