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...this year has been very disappointing from this point of view; it would be much more so if it were allowed to become a precedent. It is sincerely to be hoped, therefore, that when next year it comes to be Harvard's turn to set the date, she will stand by the constitution, and act in a way best calculated to check any further, needless bickering...
Under this committee athletics have taken a much firmer stand, the number of students who were in active training in 1891 being...
...been put into the boat for the last few days, rowing at 4; and Rantoul, who was at 4, alternates with Winthrop at 2. Vail is rowing every day in the pair-oar, for fifteen minutes only, and within three weeks, it will be definitely known whether he can stand the regular work of training or not. Weed has gone to his class crew, so at present, Slade, Vail, and either Winthrop or Rantoul (as the daily arrangements may be) are the only ones who can be considered substitutes...
...extend best wishes for success to the Harvard disputants who leave Cambridge today for the joint debate with Yale. Although it is rather premature to look upon these debates as already taking the form of intercollegiate contests, nevertheless the Harvard men who speak at New Haven tomorrow do stand in the eyes of the spectators as representatives of Harvard, and success or failure on their part reflects credit or discredit on the college. A royal reception at New Haven is a waiting the disputants, and they should leave Cambridge this morning backed by the good wishes of the whole college...
This is the climax of Newman's thought as it is the end of all wisdom, - to know the living and the true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought...