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...college, yet does not improve the opportunity offered him, it is surely his fault; and so it is with us; if God offers us eternal life and we choose an evil one, the blame rests upon us. God never violates a man's free will; he can only stir up his soul to action and if that action is not for virtue, he alone and not God is to blame...
...senior class photograph committee reports that there are still a great many men who have not yet sat for their pictures. Every day makes it harder to stir up delinquents and the time for doing satisfactory work is growing less and less. The committee has used all the devices in its power for getting men to attend to the matter and it has now nothing left but to hold up the facts of the case and urge the men who have not sat to do so at once...
...when each side scored a touch down and goal. Harvard scored in about ten minutes; then the ball went to Worcester and the Academy boys soon made the score a tie. Worcester found holes repeatedly in the line and several times the freshman backs were downed before they could stir from their tracks. Considerable gains were made around Harvard's right end which could not hold its own. The freshmen were at times sleepy, but as a whole the game went off with a good deal of snap. The make-up of the teams was as follows...
...voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886, the result would be no anti-climax. It would be a revelation of the power that lies in one college song, when it is given as it should be, to stir one's pulses...
...such a city that Paul waited for his friends to come from Berea, and felt "his spirit stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given over to idolatry." Now what were the idols that so moved him? First in size and importance was the collossal statue of Athena which towered sixty feet high in the centre of the Acropolis, visible for miles around, and the first object sighted by Athenian sailors on their return home. Then, inside the Parthe non was Phidias' famous statue of Athena made of ivory inlaid with gold. Close by, in the Erectheum...