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Just how prevalent the spirit implied in that answer is, we do not know. If it is common to a considerable number of men, then there is something about our undergraduate institutions that is all wrong; something that needs to be well remodelled. If prospect of personal gain alone will make a man undergo the hard work of training for football, for baseball or for rowing, then it should be made impossible for a man to obtain the greater, the more coveted honors until well toward the close of his college career...
That there has been something radically wrong with our rowing affairs has been made painfully evident at New London for the past few years...
...Parks preached from the text "Called to be saints," from the first chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Paul, he said, was called by God from a life of persecution and wrong-doing to fulfil God's purpose. The thought that he was thus doing God's work was to him always a comfort and a source of strength, and the same thought can be as much for all of us. Suppose three men came together to college, ond distinguished by a loving heart, one with no strong inclinations and without principles, and one with a desire...
Whether Mr. Buckle be right or wrong in affirming that the progress of the race has been purely intellectual and not moral, it is certain that the imagination and conscience of men are stronger motives of action, and lead to greater results than any mere intellectual convictions. The lever of the great English Rebellion was the Conscience of England, and though Lord Bacon has said that all revolutions begin in the belly, this is in no wise true of such as bring about enduring political changes. So during our own Revolution, though the quarrel certainly began about a point...
life. A certain student is denounced for having stolen the sign of the athletic manager. Because this gentleman is a member of the University it was decidedly wrong to steal his sign; if he had been some poor barber there might yet have been some doubt as to whether the theft was justifiable or not. Are we not laying ourselves open to the charge of upholding as a principle of our university life one which is worthy only of a band of thieves: "From any outsider steal all that thou canst-but woe unto thee if thou stealest aught from...