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Among the prose articles, "For Unknown Reasons," by Arthur S. Pier, is a very clever little piece, describing with the neccssary amount of life the devotion of five brothers to the belle of a country village, and their final amusing dismissal. The author has taken advantage of the fact that little touches of nature are what please the reader who reads for entertainment. In the same way the third of "Three Sketches," and "In the One Room," both telling stories of real life which can appeal to the hearer, are interesting and pleasing. The author of this last is John...
...debates with both Princeton and Yale, and while debates to choose speakers for these intercollegiate debates will be open to the University, it is a foregone conclusion that a member of a debating society, a man who has some reputation, will be more favorably considered than a man hitherto unknown...
...rowing material. This year the 'varsity crew men, Captain Davis and others, will coach the crews in the hope of bringing out a good race and of ultimately interesting new men in crew matters. For this reason it is important that the freshmen, who are as yet unknown in actual crew work, should enter this race and make themselves known. A slight entrance fee is charged, no distinction being made between members and non-members of the Boat Club. Entries should be made at once at Thurston's that the managers may know early how many men are to take...
...size of Harvard there must be departments, either in the academic work itself or in the social life of the students of which the large body of graduates and undergraduates are more or less ignorant. There are courses of study which interest but few men and which are unknown even by name to the majority; there are various movements in the line of athletics and in the way of purely social affairs which are little known and less cared for and all this is but natural. But there are great forces at work here for culture of which the students...
...perfect example. I would not set him in place of God. "I am the door," he says of himself; by him I would enter to know God. The whole world is looking for this knowledge; the world is an Athens and everywhere is the inscription to the Unknown God. But we worship no longer an unknown God. We have found Him; and in Him one whom we can love, reverence, and imitate, as well as the power to help us to realize in ourselves our highest ideals...