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...people with dark fears will the people do as they should. That rule is supposed to work well in the nursery, to guide children in the path of duty. But no prophecies that "the famine'll get you if you don't watch out" may be used to instil fortitude and determination into an intelligent nation. If we as a people need such methods of comprehending the necessary, then we have small reason to exist as a strong people, but rather as a pygmy-souled race of children. However, we need no such methods, as is quite obvious...
...dealing with individual souls, he must always impress the truth that to be a Christian is to join in working for God and for men. He should be the president of a body of associated workers, whom he trains and trusts. He should, with his associates, endeavor to instil the Christian spirit into every social organism, such especially as the family and the press, not trying to dominate but to inspire them. He should look upon all who are working for the good of the community as being, like himself, ministers of Christ. He should be the friend...
...judge of walking; and the great variety of jumping contests, which, together with the pole vaulting, were decidedly tedious. The success that Harvard's representatives won should urge our athletic men to fresh exertions, and the apparent walk-overs in the mile-run and in several other contests should instil in them the idea of training next winter for prizes easily within their grasp...
LAST year a faint attempt was made to instil into the minds of the Senior class the propriety of discarding the absurd costume which has been in vogue for some years past on Class Day and Commencement, and of adopting in its place the decidedly more appropriate and scholarly garment of the gown. The attempt, however, proved futile, because the few men interested in the matter allowed the opportunity of making the change to slip away, through their inactivity in canvassing the subject, and in bringing its merits before the majority, who looked with the utmost indifference upon any plan...
...great Source of our Knowledge, instil thy pure drops...