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...writer points out that now is the time for decisive action if Harvard wishes to put the mark of her condemnation upon the tendencies towards professionalism, which are fast gaining headway. If Harvard alone wishes to see athletics put on a higher plan, let her withdraw, although it seems hardly probable that she would be allowed to act alone in this matter. Whatever is the means employed, the writer urges that Harvard may put herself in such a position that with all truth she may make this announcement; "This university is for learning first; for gentlemanly sports next; for professionalism...
...draw from, the number of students in the college should have increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging spirit still exists that was prevalent in every college a decade ago. The liberal principle of optional studies which has made such headway in all the leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum routine of high school. It must be admitted on all sides that the undergraduate department of Columbia is far behind...
...Saxe forged ahead. On four downs, Princeton kicked over the rush line. The half-backs carried the ball to Princeton's twenty-yard line. On the fourth down Boyden took the ball back twenty yards. Porter went ahead fifteen yards. Trafford and Boyden took the ball, but made little headway. Ames ran the ball out, but in a few moments Harvard had it again and Woodman ran and was downed within fifteen yards of Princeton's goal, when time was called, neither side having scored a point...
...other nations of antiquity, and in this respect Egypt plays a most important part. The source of Egyptian history is chiefly derived from the inscriptions on the old temples and tombs. Many attempts were made in the 16th century to read these hieroglyphics, but no one made any headway. In the 17th century a book was published purporting to translate an inscription on one of the tombs, but the translations were entirely false as every figure was thought to represent an idea, while some of them are only letters. The first part of the 18th century saw much time uselessly...
...communicated to the prophets by the spirit of the Lord. A bright and pleasant vision is essential to a man's success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left to itself can make but little headway while combined with the imagination, it leads to the greatest result. What takes away the pain of the ghastly, gaping tomb, of the faces of distressed friends, of the dissolution of man's physical nature? The vision that shows death to be but the birth of a new life. Foremost...