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...cannot but be conscious that we are a part of the working of the great power of the universe, and that we have some kinship with it. This is surely not anthropomorphism. When the poet says that could he but know the secret of "the flower in the crannied wall" he could know what God is, he does not make God something greater of the same kind; he means that the flower has the secret of the divine power which is manifest in its life. So we can say of the soul that if we know it we know...
...place of the radiators on the north side of the main room of the gymnasium, a set of wall pipes has just been put in. These pipes give five times the heating surface which was afforded by the old radiators and at very little additional expense. The pipes have been put in only on the north wall because this side has always been the coldest part of the gymnasium and also because the pipes could not have been put entirely around the room without interfering with the apparatus. The other parts of the gymnasium are heated by the old fashioned...
Foreshortening in ceiling decoration is often greatly overdone,-in fact, realistie foreshortening is only possible in freely floating figures and even here, when violent, it is apt to produce an ugly effect. There is in reality no need for ceiling decoration,-wall panelling is always preferable...
...yards went to Yale for off side play. Yale tried the Harvard centre and found it a veritable stone wall...
...kick. Fairchild broke through and tackled strongly; his failure to do this has been his chief fault in the past. Mackie also did good work, several times spoiling the attempted kick of the Amherst fullback. The ends, Emmons and Stevenson, and the tackles, Beal and Newell, were like a wall to the Amherst backs. They guarded their ends so well as to make them almost impregnable...