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...realize human life? As a mass of single separate experiences, as a heap of happiness or misery, to be estimated by addition? No; for in this fashion life would not be rationally realized at all. To determine to treat the whole of life as real, implies for a rational being the determination to treat it as having organic unity, or at all events to try to bring it into such unity-to exemplify. When we estimate our own lives, or any part of them, we do so by treating the experiences in question...
...noticeable fact that two of the colleges who got left near the bottom of the heap in baseball last spring are in high hopes of winning the championship this year. [Yale News...
...would trust alone in his room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled in an inglorious heap before Professor-then plain Mr.-Sophocles' door. The usual consequences followed, and on awaking next morning the student had a painful if vague impression of having had an interview with the proctor. Gathering himself together he went down to see what might be effected by an apology. He explained...
...were frequent enough then, nay, which were almost inevitable, would not be tolerated now in the rowdiest of grounds. It was then by no means an uncommon sight to see the ball flying away in one part of the field, while the forward players were crowded together in a heap hacking at each others' shins like fiends ; it was by no means rare to see a man rushing at full pace with the ball toward the enemy's goal-ling, while a back-player, instead of seizing him below the waist and throwing him, calmly waited for him and hacked...
...opposing side. Robinson picked up the ball near the centre and started on a run for the goal. He didn't get far before a Columbia man tackled him in good form and compelled him to drop it. Farewell managed to pick the ball out from the struggling heap of humanity, and by handsome running and skillful dodging scored a touch-down, which was followed of course, by another goal. Morgan did some good work for the Columbia boys and in the first half a fine run brought out the well-known "Hooray, Hooray, Hooray...