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...order to give a proper amount of coaching to some of the more prominent men a reduction in the numbers of the candidates for the nine has been found expedient. Captain Whittemore desires that such of the men as have not been retained understand that they are not debarred from trying again in the spring...
...Nature is not thrown together hap-hazard. The greatest scientists have agreed that there is some purpose underneath all the world. So we all are working in God's great purpose and are called by Him. And more than that, we are "called to be saints." By sainthood we understand nothing weak or effeminate, but rather an ideal manhood. In saintliness there is much room for variety, but in all ages, under all circumstances, it must include a receptive and reverent frame of mind, a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a desire to fulfil the great purpose...
things, like those machines of perpetual motion, admirable in every way but one-that they will not go. I believe that I understand and value form as much as I should, but I also believe that some of those who have insisted most strongly on its supreme worth as the shaping soul of a work of art have imprisoned the word "soul" in a single one of its many meanings and the sould itself in a single one of its many functions. For the sould is not only that which gives form, but that which gives life, the mysterious...
...Harvard. These men live in the centre of one of the slum districts and make themselves acquainted with the poor in their neighborhood. They do this in no superficial or patronizing way, but by visiting the houses of the people, making common interests with them, and thus come to understand their needs and their merits. The clothing put into their hands is practically sure of finding its way into the hands of those who will make good...
...absolutely essential that everybody understand fairly both sides of the question before voting upon it. The object of this communication is to present the other side of the question...