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...could wish, and does not allow us all the liberty of choice that could be desired. Our fellow-students have an excuse in the numerous social duties which the neighborhood of a great city entails. But we wish that more generous contributions from them might tend to raise, us nearer to the inattainable standard of our Middletown contemporary...
Such is the ideal scrub. Many a good fellow, whose purse will not permit him to choose his tailor, is wrongfully confounded with him. Many a man who swells with as much self-satisfaction as the fabulous frog is nearer to him than he ever imagined. Many approach him more or less nearly at one point or another, but a scrub is a perfect scrub only when he is physically, mentally, and morally in need of a good scrubbing...
...against the starboard side of Holyoke. The delay was momentary, and Holyoke got away, making some two or three lengths. Now Holworthy pulled after her, gained, and when nearly even with her made a spurt which was not stopped until she had taken Holyoke's water and come much nearer Matthews. Another spurt, and she saw Matthews behind her; another, and Weld had lost her lead, and though trying hard to hold her position, and coming again nearly even with Holworthy, she could do no more, and Leeds, by another exceedingly good effort for the close of a race, crossed...
...other side, Buchner and the materialists seem not to have progressed beyond the Chinese, of three thousand years before Christ, who recognized in the universe two elements, one active, one inert, - force and matter; but perhaps came nearer the truth than our German contemporaries in recognizing these elements as divine intelligences rather than dead and aimless. The business of science is, indeed, analysis. It returns us elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist...
ONCE a careless man went to the cellar and stuck the candle in what he thought was a keg of black sand. He sat near it drinking wine until the candle burned low. Nearer and nearer it got to the black sand; nearer and nearer, until the blaze reached the black sand; and it was sand, - nothing happened...