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...Mills bill and their present attitude in Congress, After their opposition to the McKinley bill and declaring that they would work for tariff reform, they are trying to force a bill worse than their '88 bill, The Democratic party does not carry out the measures which it has thrust forward so eagerly...
...lectures should stop promptly on the hour. Men go to lectures and recitations with the understanding that they will be kept an hour, and when they find that they are being kept longer they grow restless and inattentive. The days are crowded so full now with the extra hour thrust in that the most of us have all the lecture room work we want without any additions of the sort described here. Let the bell be rung at one o'clock and at half-past four to remind those instructors who are disposed to run over their time that there...
...Yale's refusal to row a match with Cornell is not most unsportsmanlike, nor more unsportsmanlike, nor at all unsportsmanlike. Yale's aquatic ambition has for many years been limited to her annual match with Harvard, and her occasional races with other colleges have been unsought, and fairly thrust upon her. Yale has never made any overtures or expressed any desire for a match with Cornell, and it would be much more justifiable to call Cornell's challenge impertinent than Yale's refusal unsportsmanlike...
...concerned, however, numbers pure and simple are no criterion of a class's merit, and this it will be well for Ninety-three to remember. The opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that you will abuse them both. With all your forced maturity and self reliance your point of view will be radically changed as you advance, and you will often wonder in your senior year at your freshman self-assertion and wisdom...
...church is coming more and more to be that strong character cannot be developed without contact with men, contact which cannot always be with good men. And so our Christian men live in the world. But living in the world does not necessarily imply that we should rashly thrust ourselves into temptation, and the question that confronts us is, How far is a man to put himself in the way of temptation, and to what degree is he called upon to carry on his intercourse with all sorts and conditions of men? Professor Hart's discussion of this question...