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These are a few of the phases of a course at Harvard that are unknown to western schoolboys, who in their ignorance have become prejudiced; and this very prejudice has been strengthened by the testimony of their few Harvard friends, who, laboring under the same ignorance, were unable to comprehend in time the complexity of the life they found in Cambridge. For the relieving of such a condition Faculty and undergraduates are alike responsible...
...normally conservative quality and while it is intolerant of oppression it is amenable to reason. If it will it can treat Municipal Ownership dispassionately and in the interests of public welfare, of financial stability and of local exigency. But whether the expansion of the function of Government comprehend Municipal Ownership of public utilities or confine itself to provision of increased privileges of education and recreation, to public baths, libraries, etc., it is bound to be costly and it is doubtful if the most economical administration would substantially reduce the City's annual budget as the demand for public improvements growing...
...invisible." This statement, said Dr. Van Dyke, is a record of the victory of the seventh sense. Besides the ordinary five senses, and common sense, which should be added to these, there is another, the possession of which distinguishes man from beast--the power to look ahead and comprehend the invisible. This keen perception of the unseen, or, as it sometimes is, merely the power of putting two and two together, has been a characteristic of the most eminent men of history. Without it such leaders as Moses. Washington, and Lincoln, or scientists like Newton and Franklin would have been...
...evidenced in Harvard's offensive play. Long end runs marked the game, and varied the usual line plunging tactics. On the defense, however, the eleven was not nearly so strong. Quick tandem plays and simple tricks were used by Bates to advantage, as the Harvard line was slow to comprehend and check them...
...inability of man to understand it cannot be taken as proof against its reality. The recent great discoveries of science itself have bared men's minds to the realization that there are whole worlds in nature whose presence men must acknowledge though they utterly fail to comprehend them...