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...last year and of this is that the debate at hand will be decided. The board of Judges will probably be made up of three out of the four following men, - Professors Taussig of Harvard, Hadley of Yale, Seligman of Columbia, and President Andrews of Brown, all men with wide reputations for fair-mindedness and sound judgment. The decision will change the character of the debates materially. Last year neither side felt sure of its ground, and both were unwilling to risk a decision. The debates, while conspicuously successful, were more like oratorical contests in which each man spoke largely...
Choose then at the beginning of this New Year which voice you will heed, which path you will follow. Now the paths are near together but they will rapidly diverge and soon will be separated by too wide a gulf to be crossed...
...follows: "Once he was found in the library of a Boston friend, silent and sad, in a mood not usual to him Seeking to cheer him, his hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring letters. 'Ahyes,' he said, 'but they say Tennyson has written a perfect poem." Millet's early life - his parents and birth, his childhood and the development of his artistic temperament - is told in an interesting article...
...University of Pennsylvania has been given a piece of land 529 ft. long and 443 ft. wide, by the trustees, to be used as an athletic field. The grounds are conveniently situated near the college buildings and the new gymnasium which is to be built next summer will be only a short distance off. As it will take a large amount of grading to put the field in a suitable condition, work has already been begun on it. A third of a mile running track will be laid out, inside of which will be two football fields and two base...
...Cumnock has an article in the Christmas number of Wide Awake entitled "Advice to School Foot-ball Captains...