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Work is the foundation of happiness. The idler may possess wealth, social position, and all that would seem to make life happy, but nothing can fill the void made by the absence of work. If, however, a man depends, as is most often the case, on his own ability to make his way in the world, success can only come from hard work. Spencer well says, "The first requisite for success in life is to be a good animal." Sound health is indispensable to activity, either of the body or of the mind, but it must be remembered that eternal...
...time to prepare an address. We acknowledge that there must be many calls for the President's time and attention, but the same excuse given by a student when he has had several weeks' notice that a forensic will be due March 31st, has been declared null and void...
...that threatens to involve us in serious complications. We are in receipt of advices from eminent counsel informing us that a summons bearing the imprint of a seal which fails to meet the given description of the emblem of any corporation, is no otherwise than null and void. Already we have heard sundry freshmen announce their intention of disregarding in future all summonses which fail to meet the legal requirements. We print these few words of warning, therefore, in the earnest hope that the proper authorities will promptly correct the existing errors, and thus avert the impending difficulties...
...perplex my best students. They would ask me which to give up, science or the Bible. There is a general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from which the earth evolved is not consistent with the scriptures, for they speak of its being 'void without form.' The natural struggles for existence lead to the survival of the fittest, a most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experience. Without order, of what benefit would experience...
...Chicago University has new complications. Stephen A. Douglas gave land for the institution on condition that it never be sold or alienated, but the corporation mortgaged the premises for $150,000, and now some men who paid $1,000 each for scholarships ask the courts to declare the mortgage void on the ground that it was not warranted by the terms of the gift, that the title was in the trustees and not in the corporation, and that the mortgaging was a fraud upon the petitioners and the public...