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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worst form. This scorn is often the first stage of sin in the young man. He sits on a lofty seat and surveys the religious views of those about him first with doubt, then with contempt. In this process he soon hardens his conscience and then temptations find him an easy prey. There is also a scorn of ungodliness. There are men who sneer at the evils of their time, who vent their sarcasm on the wrong which they see about them and this may be all well enough in itself, but these men seldom actually do any good themselves...
...these we may see certain characteristics of the scorner. First, he is inactive, he points out evil without moving to remedy it; second, he always looks down, he is by nature an unfavorable critic and pessimist. The man with these characteristics will find his place in the voting tomorrow or rather will fail to find his place and the indifference of his class will be the greatest danger. the Government will have to face; it. is the inactive lookers on who will keep the nation in trouble and perplexity...
...today, however, the first signs of the reaction against individualism. Man is waking up to the realization that each person is only an atom in society and must find his place in its organism. With this thought noted in the minds of the people, mariage is secure, for it rests, not so much on the strictness of law, as on the tradition of reverence and instinct of respect with which people regard it. Such feeling is destroyed no more surely by city-living, with its drifting home-life or even absolute homelessness, than on the ostentation of the luxurious rich...
...class teams, but it is only fair to the men who played to say that there would have been no temptation for their forgetting themselves as far as they did if the umpire had promptly, from the start, put a stop to all unfair play. When men find that they can play off-side, hold and slug with impunity, the temptation to do so becomes tremendously strong, even for men who have been coached to play in the most rigid sportsmanlike manner; but where men go into a game with the evident intention of "doing" their opponents...
...readiness and desire to play if we could agree on dates, and we gave you the only dates which were, in fairness open to us. If your relations to other colleges, or if the sentiment of your undergraduates does not permit you to play on those dates, and you find it impracticable to bring about any other arrangement on the lines I have indicated, it is simply a case where two persons, with the best of goodwill and without fault on either side, cannot come to terms...