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...drudgery, but a sport and a recreation, have worked great changes in the attitude of the men, and many of them have now become actively interested in rowing clubs after graduation. From this body of men the new rowing organization has emanated and on them it will depend for its active support in the future. What they ask and what they must have is an opportunity to meet in competition others of their kind who have had the same rowing experience and whose ideals of the sport are similar to their own. The local regattas of the various associations...
...policy which the Directors persuaded the Society to endorse at the last annual meeting. The Directors hold that they should consider not only the rate of dividend declared upon the purchases made by the members, but also the comfort and convenience of the members, so far as the latter depend upon the efficiency of the body of persons employed in the Society's stores. To secure this contemplated improvement in the personnel, the Society will have to pay better salaries than it has paid in the past. It may be that the immediate effect of the new policy will...
...secured admirable laboratory facilities, so the departments which use the library as their laboratory need similar equipment. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of such provision on an adequate scale. On equipment even more than on any increase in the supply of books, must depend during the next twenty years the continuance of the precedence of the Harvard Library among American college libraries...
...task of defining the present state of natural religion leads to the question,--"how has modern knowledge affected the treatment of the subject?" All religious problems depend upon ideals and facts. Facts take the form of determined objects, ideals of undetermined. Facts may or may not permit ideals to be realized; and there are many ideals which may or may not be embodied in facts. Ideals are seeking a place in the world of facts, and thus we naturally look for a supreme Being there. Is there such a Being? Is the knowledge which we have enough to warrant such...
...during the early days of the Revolution. The great men of the day appear upon the scene, though he author has been singularly temperate in the parts which they are made to play. A love story of no great power runs through the book, but the most striking features depend upon the number and the depravity of the villains, the great mortality among the characters and the stage-setting afforded by such events as the Boston Tea Party and the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. the story moves briskly and at times forcefully. Though it could never be called...