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...representatives of our mother-university in England and to judge from the elaborate preparations that are being made, every advantage will be taken of this opportunity. Although, as the antagonists of the English visitors in the game today, Yale has been their natural host, yet from considerations of academic kinship the duty of welcoming the Cambridge team in behalf of the ocuntry devolves peculiarly and most appropriately upon Harvard...
...very early times the laws of the state and the church were identical. Law, among men of olden times, was believed to be sacred and to come from God. This close kinship existed between theology and jurisprudence before those terms were used as the names of definite...
...think of ourselves, we cannot but be conscious that we are a part of the working of the great power of the universe, and that we have some kinship with it. This is surely not anthropomorphism. When the poet says that could he but know the secret of "the flower in the crannied wall" he could know what God is, he does not make God something greater of the same kind; he means that the flower has the secret of the divine power which is manifest in its life. So we can say of the soul that if we know...
...than they sometimes do in merely local sports. Such an institution would enable men to meet, and it would create a multitude of private interests and friendships, which would not be lost sight of or ignored whatever the course of politics might be. It would keep the feeling of kinship among those who speak the same language and have inherited the same customs. It would strengthen that healthy liking of out-door sports, which the British have alone maintained in Europe since the Greeks degenerated. It would symbolize also to some extent that great ideal of the training...
...good will and the good understanding of the Empire" that it will make Great Britain friendlier and will arouse a new and greater interest in her colonies. Then by admitting the United States, the bonds of the two great countries will be more closely drawn and a feeling of kinship will be engendered. Those speaking the same language but from different parts of the world will be brought together, friendship will be made; sport will be encouraged...