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...Robert Collyer of New York spoke last night on a text from Isaiah 38: viii.- "Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward." Hezekiah, king of Israel was very sick and being warned by Isaiah that he was going to die prayed to the Lord for his life. He recovered. He had thought all his work was done, his sun had almost set; when suddenly the shadow on the dial began to creep backward, he regained a portion of his youthful strength and he finds...
With music vaulted o'er"-are not conspicuous, accompanied by so many of equal grace. Agathan is entirely different in design, but equally elevated in thought and feeling, and as artistic in form. It is a Greek play in iambic pentamenter. My Country, Italian Voluntarics, In the Shadow of Etna, Victor's Bird, and At Gibralter," all have the true poetic ring. Altogether the littler book is an addition to the world's library...
...sixth question then is, Why should this action have been without the notice or knowledge of Princeton? Why was it necessary to do this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why fear to give the college time to consider it? Why spring this alliance of the "fox and goose" on the university? The answer is, 'To take advantage of the ill-feeling excited by the Princeton game to get rid of Princeton.' Why not have done this in a straightforward deliberate way, if it is desired by both Harvard and Yale. Surely...
...Codman asks why the withdrawal should have taken place "without the notice or knowledge of Princeton? Why was it necessary to do this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why refuse to give the college time to consider it? " These questions are easily answered. It was thought that decisive action would prove that we were in earnest much more conclusively than a mere threat. There was no secrecy about the matter. Everything was done openly and avowedly. The matter of a dual league was inevitably bound up with the proposition to withdraw...
...praise. Their report shows an opinion of higher moral tone, of greater earnestness for work, of superior advantages for this work at Harvard, than is possessed by any college or university in the country. They tell what those who have investigated the matter know to be true without the shadow of doubt, but the more we can emphaslze these facts and present Harvard in her true light, the better, and surely this report speaks with strong emphasis...