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...American patriots revolted from England, but it had been overlooked that it was by party organization alone that the patriots were enabled to carry out their purpose. Washington assembled an army, he did not tell every man to take his musket and fight independently. If the independents would descend from the heights of sentiment and enter vigorously into the life of some party, their work would be of much more merit...
...show that as a rule dancing is a sure sign of frivolity; he finally quotes the rather cynical advice "If you dance well, dance seldom; if you do not dance well, do not dance at all." Speaking of the vanities of animals the author says, "The lower we descend in animal life, the more of a coxcomb does the male become." He then gives a detailed and interesting account of our bird dancers, chief among which are the members of the goose family. 'Sport with Canada Geese" is very good. "Miss Caruther's Partner is interesting though not a novel...
...rise entirely out of one's self. Sometimes it is due to a great sorrow, sometimes to a great joy. Such a feeling occurs so seldom that men smile when it is referred to: but I pity the man who has never felt this divine emotion. However, one must descend to earth to accomplish anything, and one must have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm carries respect with it. However much we laugh at Henry George and his schemes for abolishing poverty, at General Booth and his plan for helping the poor of England, this enthusiasm compels us to listen to them. But enthusiasm...
...subject of the greatest present interest here is football. The letters have just been received from the Harvard management protesting fifteen men, among them some who have not been in Princeton this year. The protests themselves are harmless, of course, but Harvard's willingness to descend to such low-down measures, thus to go beyond all limits with the hope of crippling the Princeton eleven, has caused much comment here, which is not calculated to flatter Harvard's athletic spirit. In spite of all efforts to prevent her, Princeton will send an eleven to Harvard next Saturday which, although...
...share in each. The atmosphere that surrounds the university is something of which we are all proud; it raises the grade of every school in the town; it increases the intelligence of every man, woman and child; and it adds to the money value of our real estate, to descend from the higher standard of worth to the lower...