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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...George A. Goraon gave a sermon in Appleton chapel last night on a text from Acts 12, x. where Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. He said that the outside door of the prison which "opened of its own accord" may be likened to what men find hampering in their environments. Men think they cannot be temperate, pure, or good because their associations tend to make them intemperate, vicious or bad. These environments are really very easy to break through. A strong faith in a righteous purpose will prevail very quickly over these imaginary difficulties...
DEAR SIRS.- At a time of the year when other subjects about college do not attract general interest, perhaps you will find room in your columns for some remarks about the state of rowing at Harvard...
...Violet and Orange Blossoms" is a pathetic story which ought to arouse our sympathy, but we cannot weep for we cannot find any reason for the poor poet's despair. Such tragic events are interesting when written about, but they do not happen nowadays. The picture of the poor poet burning his opera act by act, to keep himself from freezing while writing his poem is well written...
...method of treatment is already familiar to readers of Emerson, Arno d and Carlyle. The tone of all the essays is one of extreme optimisim and encouragement. The idea of the whole is well summed up in one of its first sentences-"I shlal treat life as we find it, see what has been and is made of it, and suggest what might be, must be, made of it if we really mean to remedy what we complain of in our journey through life...