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...thesis on the German Storm and Stress period is due tomorrow in Philosophy...
...when it is considered that a number of men who competed last fall, among whom are Greenleaf, Bailey, Tweedey, Philip Davis, Rogers, Hill, Cutting and others, are not entered, shows what strides cycling has made in the college even in the last few months. We wish to lay particular stress on the large proportion of absolutely new men who have entered. This increased active interest in the sport not only promises well for furture intercollegiate track contests, but also promises that a large number of distinctly new athletic men (by which we mean men who would...
...lenient and simple and this state of things is probably the foundation of the internal peace and content that has so long reigned in that country. The complicated and grinding tax system sowed the seeds of decay in ancient Rome, a fact upon which few historians have laid much stress. In modern times, to us the most famous rebellion resulting from an abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth to the year 1789 forced the people to such a pitch of frenzy that...
...George A. Gordon, of Boston conducted the services at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He took for the general subject of his address "rectitude, humanity and piety" and considered human life and ways of living from these three standpoints, laying especial stress upon rectitude and piety. He said that piety is too often assumed. There are too many young men who think that religion is superficial, that it may be put on at will, and put off at will as best suits his convenience. But a true, deep-feeling religious life consists rather in a life of just relations...
...banquet of the School-masters' club at the Hotel Brunswick last Saturday, Professor Francis G. Peabody in his after-dinner remarks laid special stress on the dangerous element in college. He proceeded to make an analysis of this element of college life which results from the foolishness of homes, the priggishness of many preparatory schools, and the selfishness of some natures. The false standards, false ideals, spirit of worldliness, and the worship of money at homes where expenses are carried beyond the bounds of reason and habits are excessive, are so threatening as to make all students apprehensive. There...