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...rules, whom all men concede to be the most gifted handicappers in the world, were present at this aquatie duel, he would have seen in all its broadcast evil and unfairness the severity of his own law. As it is, he may read about it in the papers to dismiss it with a tush...
...welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...
This discussion brings us to the middle course advocated by R. A. Derby '05 in the Outlook. For the present we can dismiss that article with the statement that it advocates a Utopia--in the opinion of the author--which we are not ready to enjoy, and which is so practically inconsistent with the present sentiments of undergraduates and graduates that its theories should be of interest merely as conjectures...
...question under discussion is a political, not a sentimental one. It is an acknowledged fact that the Transvaal is the weaker state, but weakness of itself has never argued righteousness. Is the Briton or the Boer right? To decide it we must dismiss our sentiment and fall back upon our judgment...
...Education increases this feeling of dislike because modern thought and education are characterized by a love of precision which renders many all the more impatient at the mystery which attends the church. As a result, several practical, but none the less wrong views of religion are taken. Some dismiss religion entirely as of no importance. Its incoherence condemns it in their sight. These are mostly scientists, literary men, and the like. Their scope is small: their view of life is mistaken. This class, although numerically large, is proportionally small. There is another set of men who are superstitious in regard...