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...rowing traditions of the two universities do not differ materially, so it is easy for a man from either university to coach the crew of the other. Traditions are at times lost sight of, however, and when this occurs it requires careful work to restore their sway. For instance, for several years prior to last year's race Cambridge won by superior leg work. Cambridge, however, was becoming careless in body form, and Oxford, perceiving her error, worked until she successfully grafted good leg work upon good style, which she has always preserved easily on account of the enlistment...
...tonight, and for sake of clearness he would subdivide these into four great particulars. Two external particulars and two internal. The two external were the securing general currency throughout the then known world for one language-Greek, and the bringing together of the nations of the world under one sway-that of Rome. The two internal particulars were the relation to religion and the relation to philosophy...
...beginning of this century the romantic school of writers and thinkers was in full sway. These romanticists took their subjects from oriental and mediaeval sources. English and French conquests in the East brought rut a great deal of material for this interest to work on, and as a result there was a great study of eastern language, religion and institutions. The motive of this study was romantic, the outcome was scientific; and the chief result of it was an increase in the importance of history...
...According to International Law the United States has exclusive jurisdiction over Behring Sea. It is not contrary to custom for nations to hold unlimited sway over large bodies of water; e. g., Long Island Sound, Bay of Cheleurs, Fortune Bay, Irish Channel; Hall's International Law, p. 140; Halleck 1, 140; Phillimore 1, 216; Wheaton...
James Russell Lowell then delivered an address, saying that Harvard was founded to perpetuate sound learning, chiefly through the three languages, Hebrew, Greek and Latin. This tradition long held so strong a sway that the language was considered to vouch for good literature, and men forgot that it is the thought, not the language that makes a writer immortal. Now men have come to realize the value of knowing other languages, not only on account of its use in teaching us the true meaning of our own words, but the training in style we gain from reading more writers...