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...understands the real position of religion in the life here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed. The ministers of the University preach Christ, not theology. There is an agreement in condemnation of all cant and austerity; all exaggeration, undue emotionality and misrepresentation of feeling...
...chief differences between man and the lower animals. In man it is brought to a high degree of development, but in the lower animals it is scarcely noticeable, although examples of it are sometimes noticed. Among the less civilized nations the preservation of the tribe is the great motive power, and whatever tends to that end is thought to be the greatest virtue. Thus we see how it was that courage became to be so much admired. And investigation shows that morality has not been developed by selfishness, nor by a desire for happiness, but by a striving after...
...statuette about a meter high, which was discovered in Athens near one of the gymnasia. It is the work of an inferior artist, however, and is only a fair production. It is executed in Pentelic marble, and, of course, many of the details of the great statue have been omitted. In a second statuette, discovered later, the reliefs on the shield of the great statue are reproduced after a fashion; the statuette as a whole, however, is a very clumsy piece of workmanship, and much inferior to the one first discovered. But even from the meager accounts we have...
...eastern and western pediments were next described. The remarkable beauty and natural grace of the figures in these pediments, as well as the skill displayed in their arrangement, are beyond praise. The great central group in the eastern pediment is unfortunately lost...
...Cheney, stroke; Carpenter, '89, coach. Watriss took Cheney's place and stroked the crew during the latter part of the afternoon. The men on the second crew are light but those on the first crew are just about the average weight of freshman crews. Ninety-two has had a great advantage in being able to get out on the river so early in the spring and the result ought to appear at New London next June. For the present the crews will row in the barge which the class has bought. The men will be coached by Kidder, the captain...