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...needs is the feeling that every man in college is back of it, ready to give his most loyal support. There are few more impressive scenes than the send-off of a 'varsity team. The effect on each player is deep and lasting, more so than any individual can understand who has not been on a 'varsity team. As this is true, and everybody knows it is true, let not a single man fail to be on hand several minutes ahead of time, ready to do his share towards helping the eleven...
...regards the study of poetry three rules may be laid down. First, commit much to memory. Nothing will help us so much to understand why the poet has chosen each work and why he expresses himself as he does. Second, choose one master and study him; know him perfectly and understand his ways. Third, when you have learned what you can from one master, study others and compare them with your master...
...could see there a Greek Archbishop, a Buddhist from China, and a Confucian from Japan sitting side by side with Episcopal and Roman Bishops, talking with them in a friendly and sympathetic way and even expressing the same sentiment-and then quarrel about trivial sectarian difference is hard to understand. Various minor congresses of different religions and sects were held in the first part of September. A man going to these meetings heard invariably the same words of love and the same call for charity and for universal or brotherhood. On September 11 they all met together. The origin...
...ruling power of the universe. It is sure that the universe is guided by thought, that is by reasonable laws, for if the world were only a mass of atoms without any controlling power there would be nothing stable or certain about it. So the physicist tries to understand God's thoughts as shown in the laws of matter, and the theologist tries to understand them in his spiritual laws. Religion is not by any means the same thing as theology. The one is the science of the study of God's nature, while the other...
...would analyze life, destroys it. To understand the life of man, we must look on it not in detail but as a whole; and we can get no rational view of it till we know the history of its past, of that development in which the present is but a single step...