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...utterance of a man of President Eliot's reputation, culture, and experience and before persons who are, most of them, perhaps destined to come into contact, as missionaries, with the much wronged Asiaties. If the Christian missionary activity requires things as these to kindle their well-nigh expiring zeal for their cause, it is safe to predict that a terrible disillusion is soon at hand for them...
...into a large number of small groups, for the most part isolated and distinct from one another. Pre-college acquaintanceships and preparatory school friendships from the basis of this class subdivision. This is the prevalent condition that causes President Lowell to remark that "exhortation and advice are well-nigh fruitless without a favorable environment...
...preceded and followed. Miss Gragg, as the wife, was strong and convincing, perhaps her manner might have been more spontaneous, less charted, but her voice and facial expression were excellent. Mr. Woodward represented a man of stone, unemotional, silent; Mr. Searle a sly, evil, cowardly lover; both were well-nigh perfect. "Alaric Jourdan's House" was a brilliant achievement...
...yard rule and the prohibition of all pushing and pulling of the man with the ball has made it very hard for a team to make first down against an opponent its equal in strength when the play is in the middle of the field, and well-nigh impossible when close to the goal-line. For this reason most of the scoring between evenly matched teams during the fall has been made through field goals. When touchdowns have been scored they have resulted very often from flukes and long runs of the kind that White of Princeton has figured...
...following races at the indoor meet of the South Boston Athletic Club, which will be held on Saturday nigh, have been arranged for members of the University relay teams: two University 390-yard relay teams will run against each other; the 780-yard team will have no race, but its members will be entered in the open events; and the Freshman 390-yard relay team will probably run against the Boston English High School...