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...defend. The force that keeps prayers up in their present form is inertia. If laziness has some part in the opposition to prayers, laziness has as great a part in the defence of them. As regards the reason so frequently urged that attendance at chapel serves as a sort of roll-call, and that without such a compulsory service laziness would be encouraged, it is evident that, if this be a reason for the continuance of the present service, a daily morning roll-call could easily be substituted...
There is a large amount of elastic tissue in the lungs, so that by virtue of their elasticity they can expel a large part of the air which they contain when inflated. A certain amount, however, always remains. As the heart is enclosed in a sort of sack called the pericardium, so are the lungs enclosed in a sack, the pleura, the inner part of which passes over the outside of the lungs and the outer part lines the inside of the chest. In health there is nothing between these two surfaces but a little moisture which helps them...
...cannot give satisfaction both to students and faculty at the same time. These statements, although obviously so foolish, are worth notice because they voice the opinion of many unthinking readers who consider that the sole aim of the college press is to "grind" the faculty and carry on a sort of warfare against the existing powers...
...reason of this is, that men confound what they would like to be with what they ought to be. The great fear is that the pursuit they have chosen will in the future prove "uncongenial." But it is necessarily "uncongenial" sometimes to do the right thing in any sort of action, and it may unhappily be so in this case. The question that should be asked in deciding this matter is not "What should I like to do?" but "What ought I to do?" In answering this question we have but to glance at our degrees of success...
...work is an extremely pains taking collection and methodical arrangement of all the facts needed by the student, the statesman, or the editor to fit him for taking part in this battle. Along with the collection of material we have a clear and dispassionate argument, not of the controversial sort, maintaining the views held by nearly all economists of the present day on the subject of monetary standards...