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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...life of every man is, in this respect, like that of John. He may look at his life as the end and object of all the work that has been done in the past. For him have his ancestors toiled for generations; for him has a college been founded, and for him has the world been growing better and happier ever since the beginning. But there can be no more narrow or dismal way of looking at one's life than to regard it as the perfection of all efforts of the past. Rather, it is but a step...
...first place, the writer conceives that athletic men here look on the best type of a man physically as something comparable to a "draught horse." Nothing need be said in answer to this but that the best physiques, as shown by Dr. Sargent's charts and as admitted by sensible men everywhere, are not necessarily those of enormous bulk and huge muscle. Symmetry, not size, is the test. The writer repeatedly confounds gymnastic work with the work of athletic contests and includes the former in his attack upon the latter. He makes the very popular mistake of seeing no middle...
...occurred; the unfortunate was a fanciful creation of the writer's imagination. The sophomore very much overestimates the importance which the college authorities attach to athletic contests. He says that "especial leniency is shown in the class room and examination hall to men in training," etc. If he will look into the matter he will find that though the athlete in training may have a few more "cuts" granted him, he has to pass the same examination which other men pass and on the same standard of marking. Again, the writer cannot remember the name of any man prominent...
...relation of God to man. Here, as in many others of the more beautiful psalms, are connected together the infinite and the finite; the infinite works of God and the finite nature of man. So we find everywhere in life the finite and the infinite together. When we look at the stars we cannot help thinking what is there beyond them all; what is that infinite space; and yet we are set in the universe, finite in the infinite, and part of it. In the same way are God and man, one in the other. Every man is a child...
...look to Harvard men to take a lead in this matter, believing that the smaller colleges will give their support, and that, as a result, the work will receive a new impulse that cannot be brought about by the separate effort of individual organizations...