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...nose. Socrates was born in 464 or 465 B. C. and died in 399. His life was contemporaneous with the age of Pericles and the Peloponnesian war, and it was in this war that he showed his sturdy constitution which enabled him to endure hardships and even excesses without detriment...
...advised the class not to elect a permanent captain for the eleven until later in the season, and, speaking of the action taken by the Board of Overseers, showed how necessary it was to act carefully in order that freshman contests should not be abolished altogether to the great detriment of all of our university athletics. At the conclusion of his talk, he was heartily cheered...
...present policy is "vicious, inequitable and unjust" in that while purporting to protect American shipping it really ensures to foreigners a monopoly of our foreign carrying trade, and protects them in the enjoyment of it to our own detriment: Report of Secretary of Treasury, 1887, xliv.; Kelley, "Question of Ships;" Wells, "Our Merchant Marine...
...establish complete harmony between form and matter, between the subject and the language in which it is expressed, between the thought and the stone. In the remnants of the Archaic Period we are oppressed by a sense of the obtrusion of the material on our vision, to the detriment of the idea to be expressed. Again, in the Period of Decline, brilliant though this decline must be admitted to have been, we are oppressed by the presence of the material...
...appreciated, and any possible failure will only be brought into greater prominence. It is not only a duty, it should be a pleasure to every member of the university to see the highest possible success attained. The slight personal expenses to be incurred should not influence men to the detriment of the plan in so much as similar expenses are incurred periodically for a purpose far less worthy. If a campaign procession is possible once in four years, what need we urge in favor of the procession now proposed...