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...pointed to the urgent need of an amendment to this rule whereby at least the last two games played in October may begin at 2 o'clock. Aside from the fact that players and spectators were at a decided disadvantage, there was danger in forcing thousands of persons to grope their way down dark stairways, over loose boards, and only partially constructed wooden stands. For another year safety, even aside from football considerations, calls for earlier games in late October...
...those who grope in the shadow of uncertainty, the analogy between human life and the spectrum of light is comforting. We can see but a small part of the rays; those which give the shades of color, while the rays which come before and after the spectrum are invisible. Thus it is with life--the unknown past, the illuminated present, and the unseen future of human existence should not make us doubt the reality of what we cannot see. Out eyes and ears are finite, and receive no impressions of infinite things. They dupe us, and make us blind...
...perfection of form can be learned only of the Greeks, and it is certainly true that many among them attained to, or developed out of some hereditary germ of aptitude, a sense of proportion and of the helpful relation of parts to the whole organism which other races mostly grope after in vain. Spenser, in the enthusiasm of his new Platonism, tells us that "Soul is form,and doth the body make," and no doubt this is true of the highest artistic genius. Form without soul, the most obsequious observance of the unities, the most perfect a priori adjustment...
...often men are detained until after that hour, either by business or pleasure, and it is not agreeable, to say the least, on entering the building at ten minutes after twelve to find it shrouded in Egyptian darkness. One must cautiously feel his way up any number of stairs, grope slowly along the corridor, learning where to turn by putting his hand on the friendly wall; and after he has rounded the corner and made the door of his room he must again resort to his sense of feeling in order to find the key-hole. It seems absurd that...
...runs should be finished before dark, as the pleasure in much decreased if the hounds have to grope around in the dark, hunting after the scent...