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...such an arrangement be repeated every year? If at least one instructor in each of the important departments of the university would be willing to give one or more evening lectures on his special subject, audiences would meet these gentlemen which, by their size, would show their appreciation of the efforts made for their instruction and pleasure...
...those views were excluded from consideration which lay stress on rewards and punishments as sanctions of the moral law. What is done for reward is, in so far, not a positively moral act. The real world offers support to true morality only in so far as it can show us that we are not alone when we try to act morally. If something in nature tends to realize genuine morality, then this something may show us a religious aspect of nature. For religion seeks in nature for something that gives support to the moral law. Now in two directions...
...appeal made by the treasurer of the Boat Club in another column ought to meet with such prompt response as to make further appeals for the same object unnecessary. The college should at all events show that it is unwilling to slight the needs of a victorious crew. We hope that the freshmen in particular will see fit to contribute largely. Fewer organizations are dependent for financial support on them than on any other class, and they should show their interest in the success of Harvard's athletics in a substantial...
...experience of the case in point. In so long a course of training as nine months, some of the best men who make up the first eight almost necessarily get disabled or get tired of the work, and their places must be filled by men who did not show up so well at first. If we look at the men who have taken the places of those who are either temporarily or wholly laid up, we find, with only one exception, that they are men who have rowed but two or three months at the most. This is easily explained...
...entries, men who have certain fine records are handicapped, thus giving more likelihood of success to the less experienced contestants. There seems to be no reason why this should not be done at the coming winter meetings, introducing trials in the several events for those whose records do not show a high order of excellency...