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...force acting upon it.' According to this definition, I have experienced no reactions to my reception at Harvard, for I certainly have not offered any opposition to the great Crimson force which has swept me along in its wide current, just as the turbulent mountain torrent whirls the tender sapling which has fallen into its power along the precipitous and oft-times fatal course...
...effects from the punch served at the Union's Freshman Reception, nor have I encountered any antediluvian phenomena since the jovial Phillips Brooks House reception. Still I feel sure that if Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet,' he would either give the innocent victims some advice on how to avoid them, or, realizing the futility of doing this, he should adopt some plan whereby our suffering, if not eliminated...
...country. And not alone in athletics. In scholarship also she--"she," for like excursion boats, colleges are feminine--she has distinguished herself by recognition of the long neglected subject of business. As compared with Latin, Greek, the Renaissance and plane (not solid) ornithology, the study of business is a tender plant, and must be watered if it is not to perish in all but a few enthusiastic garrets. The President, and good fellows, and overseers and superintendents and foremen of Harvard were wise to see this obscure condition clearly, and courageous to remedy it. In action, their courage exceeded their...
...Ability to breath air by means of lungs rather than to purify the blood by means of gills meant success in escaping from the water to the land. Love of offspring and tender care for the young gave the weak and puny mammals of long ago the ability to triumph over much stronger and more powerful reptiles like the dinosaur...
...clock this evening Philips Brooks House, will tender a reception to all students in the University who are Christian Scientists. The entertainment will be informal, short speeches being followed by light refreshments...