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...troubles of his office, and though conscious of their presence, could see beyond them a word of beauty land truth. A hard worker while he worked, he always had the life about him to cheer him and give him rest. To live, to move about in the sunlight in a world of trees and flowers and birds, this was his highest pleasure. His death, then, seems almost a double death, in that it deprives him so much...
...inner doors, floors, and window sashes are made of soft yellow pine, which is capable of a very high polish. The walls and ceilings are glazed with a hard, white, glossy finish. The sun parlors are the principal features of the building, being so constructed as to admit the sunlight during the whole...
...from the Damascus Gate stands a hill that looks exceedingly like a skull in the sunlight, and could well give to the hill the name, the "place of a skull" Close at hand have been discovered the remains of an old Roman road leading directly to Herod's Tower in the city from which it could easily be seen. Moreover, just back of the hill stands a garden, and along its edge runs a wall, pretty well buried under the accumulated dust of ages. Excavations have brought to light a tomb in the wall, protected by a rolling stone, just...
...interference stop there. After all, the object is to see which team can play the better and steadier game, and any practices which prevent a team from playing its best (beyond the practices of legitimate rattling) are distinctly to be discouraged. Using mirrors to throw the sunlight into the players' eyes, a practice which was fortunately stopped after the first few innings, is going decidedly too far. The teams, we repeat, should not be physically prevented from playing their best...
...lecturer showed how leaves are fitted in position and structure, to get all the sunlight possible, and how, from this example, the adaptability of means to ends is carried out in nature. This general principle can be impressed on young pupils by illustrations just such as this, where enough is suggested to them, to enable them to infer truths for themselves. Teachers should take extreme care, and not try to make the young pupils study details...