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Nothing definite has been proposed for such a club to do. When it is so uncertain that an organization can do anything, why should it be formed? We think that the ephemeral character of such a club would do harm, not good; would produce ridicule, not esteem...
...there be any who think there is no chance of making the crew over the men who are now in training, they should know that these men have been taken merely on trial and stand no better chance than those who have never rowed...
...unwilling, however to believe that the question "What has he to gain?" is one that many men would think of asking. Fortunately we have many athletes of whose loyalty and devotion there can be no question...
...cultus of the dead is thus the great bond of the family, and also that of the social order from emperor to peasant. Readers of the Chinese moralists are apt to think that there is nothing in the religion but ceremony. This ceremony, however, is the adequate expression and regulation of the feeling of the people...
...rejoice in the wonderful advance made in the comparative philology of the modern languages, I should not have the face to be standing here. But neither should I if I shrank from saying what I believed to be the truth, whether here or elsewhere. I think that the purely linguistic side in the teaching of them seems in the way to get more than its fitting share. I insist only that in our college courses this should be a separate study, and that, good as it is in itself, it should, in the scheme of general instruction, be restrained...