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...ancient German in his ideal life nearer akin to the Greek than to the Roman...
...Brittishers in this respect. To begin with, the Oxford and Cambridge crews do not row with their seats over the keels as our crews do but the men are seated much the same as in Boston working boats, the starboard and port oarsmen sitting apart, outward and much nearer the gunwales...
...confused as we proceed in something that at the outset looked simple enough, and sometimes we even forget our original purpose. In Lent most of us try a little more earnestly to improve ourselves, for example we try to break loose from some bad habit or to help others nearer to God. Towards the end of Lent, though, we usually find that we have not done so well as we hoped to. What we must do then, is to look to our original purpose and with God's help put in some earnest work before Easter. It is very well...
...stars forming circles, and as we go farther north we find the circles growing gradually smaller, till at last they seem almost to stand still. We arrive at the north star but this is not at the pole, for by means of the helioscope one may see many stars nearer to the pole. Farthest north the circles appear to be concentric. We now have the pole and the zenith, and the points of the compass may be determined. In order to find the south pole, the preceding operation is of course carried out in the opposite direction...
...spherical shape of the earth for they observed that as one travelled north or south he found that the position of the pole in regard to the position of the zenith changed. If one travelled south, the pole became farther distant from the zenith, and if north, it became nearer. This then took place either because the earth was round or the pole was an object so near that it might be passed and left behind. But the ancients observed that the stars were very far distant and therefore arrived at the conclusion that the earth must be round...