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...station. From here the trail ran parallel to the railroad track as far as Fresh pond, then turning sharply, straight back to Highland street, where the break was made. The hares reached the gymnasium at 4.30, and twenty minutes later the hounds began to arrive. H. P. Williams was first, followed by Hockstadter, R. Stone and Blake. The hares had to give the hounds fifteen minutes, which they were able to do and have five minutes to spare, thus winning the race...
...playing of the freshman team in yesterday's game shows two things; first, that the eleven does not realize that the date of the Yale game is near; and, second, that the men on the team have not trained conscientiously. The eleven has been carefully coached since the season opened, but such an exhibition of high tackling and fumbling is not often seen...
...this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first one class and then another for freedom ended in nothing. All the sadder was this sixteenth century because even the great man who had called the struggle of faith against dogma into being was himself led away by the strong force of circumstances from the ideas of his early manhood...
...Luther's first great blow at Rome was the Theses, written in 1517 against the Indulgences. "No one can step between me and my conscience," said Luther. "Only by regeneration of myself can I come to salvation. The Theses were followed in 1520 by the Address on the Improving of Christian Society, In this pamphlet Luther attacked the whole body of canonic law, and preached, as he knew well, nothing less than a complete revolution in the church and in society. Two more pamphlets published in the same year entitled "The Babylonian Captivity," and "The Liberty of the Christian...
...regular meeting of the Shooting club was held at Watertown yesterday afternoon. Match D was completed. Hastie won first place with a score of 18 and a handicap of 4; Bacon second place with a score of 20 and a handicap of 1. The best scores in the other matches were as follows...