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...sources of knowledge of Buddhism are in the northern and southern literature of India. That of the south comes nearest to the personality of Buddha. The importance of the Buddha legend lies in the fact that a knowledge of Buddha's personality is necessary to understand Buddhism. The basis of the whole system is a belief in pessimism and innumerable births...
...know which man was to catch the ball. Once three men could have caught a foul, but it fell uncaught because of the confusion caused by the other players calling upon the different men to catch it. This ought never to happen again. The players ought to understand that it is the captain's place to call out who is to take the ball, and if his voice alone is heard there will be no confusion. When two men start for a high fly, the one calling out "I have it" should be allowed to take the ball, and should...
Certainly no student of the University who desires to understand the great advances made in the photographic art of recent years, and to enjoy a rare opportunity for comparison of interesting geological forms from various localities, should fail to visit the photographic exhibition of the Geological Department, at present being held in Massachusetts Hall. Regarded from the standpoint of photography, the various portions of the exhibition are of unequal merit. The fine mountain-work of Sella and of Jackson rather casts into the shade the remainder of the collection. Yet the subjects of all the photographs are so interesting, that...
...there were no special laboratories at Harvard during these years, it is difficult to understand how chemistry and physics and the other sciences were taught. When Professor Cooke was first appointed a full professor he was unusully young and unexperienced, but it was owing to his zeal and energy that the first chemical laboratory was instituted. It was in the northwestern basement of University Hall, the northeastern basement being occupied by a baker's shop. Professor Cooke first ousted the baker in extending his laboratory, and a year or two later obtained more convenient quarters upstairs, effecting many of these...
...order to understand our Bibles we study Greek, yet this preparation by means of study is not to be compared with the possession of the faculty of seeing and understanding God's revelations when they are shown to us in simple things. Possessing this faculty our present life is not an isolated one, short and uncertain, but merely a part or beginning of the eternal life. But without the consciousness of God's presence in all nature, life loses its purpose and degenerates into a cold, hopeless existence...