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...attention of the freshman class to the meeting tonight of candidates for the freshman eleven. It will be the first time that the athletic spirit of ninety-eight is tested, and it would give the whole College a genuine pleasure if the class should meet that test well. Much depends on the start; if a class is sluggish and half-hearted when it begins its athletic work, it has always that reputation to war against, while if at once it shows life and zest, it has always that prestige to aid it further...
...desires, to submit to His will. The third being had the face of a man, and the chief attribute of man is intelligence. We cannot do anything without intelligence. We can have no guide but our reason and in all things we must use this as a test whether or not we can believe in them. We cannot accept what is contrary to our reason. God does not expect us to believe that which contradicts our very guiding power. So a blind faith is worth nothing; we must believe reasonably and intelligently. The doctrine of the Trinity...
...stumbles across questions of practicability. Scholarships ought to be given to those students who most need money and who are likeliest to be useful in the active life of the world after graduation. This much is plain. But the question comes: is not college rank the only practicable test for determining distribution of scholarships...
...largely an unknown quantity, may be taken as a basis for a general group, but nothing more. Needs, on the other hand, can be determined with considerable accuracy, and offer a far more practicable basis for subdivision. As matters stand, the rational order of things is totally reversed. The test, fit for subdividing, is used for the general group; the test fit only for the general group is used for the subdivision...
...making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing to pay the highest prices for things that were of no practical use whatever, and though a Frenchman has said that cookery was the test of civilization, we are more commonly apt to gauge it by the value set upon works whose only apology for being is their beauty. If we compare the spirit which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851, with that which underlay the first crusade we can hardly hesitate as to which...