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...doctrine of Animism is the name given to the ideas held by the early races of man about souls or spiritual beings. Its wide prevalence is substantiated by many of the relics of the early periods. There is a marked continuity in the ideas on this subject. Animism is an elementary philosophy by which man explains himself and as man has advanced, the group of ideas on this subject at any time have always been appropriate to the state of advancement...
...numbers, wealth, and intellectual resources, not merely an advance along old and conspicuous lines; but a transformation of nature and spirit, a new birth of university life. President Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that...
...Oxford and Cambridge courses are to those of Harvard and Yale, or any other of the American university courses of which I know anything, as the (about) fifty-foot creek at Princeton is to the Charles River on which Harvard rows. The Isis at Oxford will average about as wide as a length and a half of a shell. The Cam at Cambridge is much narrower, so much so that two eight-oars can pass in safety only by each paddling very slowly. There are some parts of it where they cannot do even that. If, therefore, these English universities...
...sixty-one and a half foot paper shell, built for the 'varsity by Waters of Troy, has arrived. It looks wide and has not the usual depth of a 'varsity shell...
...drain themselves of energy that, the four years over, they need to recover from past work, and are, at best, only half fit to undertake new work. About this fact, no full testimony can be given, and yet we believe that it is a general conviction, rooted in wide experience, that the men who take the highest rank in college are not, as a rule, the most powerful in after life...