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...have any real standards by which to judge more recent classes, and must confine themselves to their predictions and prophetical calculations, which in this case so pitifully deceived them. It were better that they should look upon such things in which the Class of 1961 has excelled, such as (exempla gratia) football and crew. Furthermore, as Ecclesiastes warned, much study is a weariness of the flesh (12:12), and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow (1:18). And, as St. Paul has said (I. Cor. 9:25), speaking of Olympic athletes, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Types in the Old Attic Comedy." Professor C. N. Jackson. "Some Characteristics of the Roman exempla virtutum." Mr. H. W. Litchfield. "The prolaliai of the Greek Sophists." Mr. R. M. Peterson. Harvard...
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