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...auditing of accounts by this committee and the submitting of the result of its labors to the college is a benefit, the value of which we cannot over-estimate, for it cannot fail to destroy the belief, which has been current to some extent in an indisposition on the part of the athletic organizations to have anything to say to the students, except to get subscriptions...
...alteration in the Yale rowing tank, the water which is forced towards the stern by the motion of the oars returns in a united current under the boat...
...great majority of mankind is ruled by the external consideration of their actions and is not impelled by internal life. Some are controlled by public opinion so that they stoop to do vile things because others do. They are simply like atoms in a mass, drops that follow the current, who do not own their own souls. They are often afraid of losing their place in society, often their "gentlemanliness" stands in place of their "manliness. In our age, culture is regarded almost entirely as intellectual. This has its dangers. The danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve...
...modern political outlook. It was a highly creditable course-the best that the writer has found in the annals of any American college-at that early period. It savored, however, more of German than of English origin. John Gross, professor of German and Geography, evidently represents a European current in American college instruction. Side by side with historicogeographical studies at Columbia ran the old scholastic course in Greek and Roman antiquities, which had probably been taught from the beginning of the college, in connection with the classical department. Classical History has really been the life current of historical instruction...
...sponges as individuals not as colonies. A sponge is essentially a globular sieve with the meshes prolonged into a labyrinth of minute tubes. Contrary to the general belief, sponges breathe by means of their outer layer. The inner layer consists of small cells armed with whips which create a current to draw in the small water animals which form its food. Between these two is another layer, which secretes the chalky, or horny, spicules which form the skeleton. All sponges are modifications of this simple form. Among the many specimens shown, one form deserves special mention, as it destroys many...