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...aroused over here at this seeming Americanization of English sport is scarcely justified by facts. Students from this country have been going to Oxford and Cambridge ever since Jamestown days, and the institution of Rhodes Scholarships certainly has not lessened the number. It is only natural that this continued inflow should make some impression on England's educational pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN IMPERIALISM | 3/26/1923 | See Source »

...great atmosphere of larger life which surrounds them and to which they must forever keep themselves open. The part which knows itself and lives in obedience and receptively to its great whole is strong. The part which calls itself a whole and shuts itself up against the inflow of that universal which is "evergreen," grows dry and barren and desolate and dies. Of how many lives of men and institutions is the secret here? All false partisanship, all barren specialism and spiritual selfishness is but the effort of a part to take itself out of the embrace of the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Evening Services. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...hardly too early to call attention to and to make an effort to reform an abuse which has been on the increase for years. Each class day witnesses a steady growth in the inflow of the objectionable element who crowd our yard after evening. If the line could be drawn at muckerism, we would simply be repeating a worn out complaint. But the youth of Cambridge are not alone to blame in this particular case. The questionable youth of various stamps are concerned. It has long been a source of mortification to those who have entertained their friends to endure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1886 | See Source »

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