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...Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
...editor of the North American Review, in his effort to be non-partisan, evidently believes in Bacon's advice concerning physicians: "Take one of a middle temper; or, if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort." Three Democratic and three Republican Congressmen therefore contribute to the symposium on "What Congress Has Done." The Republicans, McKinley, Lodge and Dalzell, are unanimous in saying that the last session has done wonders; the Democrats are as unanimous in deciding that Congress has done a great many things it ought not to have done and left undone...
...outside elevens to come to Cambridge; but, unfortunately, nearly all the teams worth playing have scheduled games in their own series to play from now on. Telegrams have been sent all over the country but with very little satisfaction. We as sure grumblers that the eleven will play some sort of a team on each of regular days, and, in point of fact, such a game as was played last Saturday is as interesting as can be desired...
...expected that the Cornell eleven would give Harvard some valuable practice; but the practice that the 'varsity got out of Saturday's game is the sort that makes a team careless. The visitors played a plucky game; but they were over-matched at every point and became discouraged in the last half; further, they were hardly in condition to play their best game, for they had played on Thursday and Friday and had been up a great deal traveling. Their eleven is made up of strong, heavy men, and if they knew the game they would give any team...
...hurt slightly. During this half Harvard did not try to run the score up; instead of carrying the ball across the line, the halfbacks would deposit it somewhere within fifteen or twenty yards of the goal posts and then Trafford would try for a goal from the field. This sort of practice was very exasperating to Cornell; but it gave the Harvard rushers practice in blocking. Trafford kicked five goals in six attempts during this half, bringing the score up to 77-0. Just at the end Cornell braced, and got the ball into Harvard's territory, and time...