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Another important change is the holding of a preliminary meeting for wrestling. In former years the long trial bouts have been exceedingly tedious, and have often exhausted the contestants before the final bouts. This year only the final bouts will be wrestled at the regular meeting, and the result will be a more interesting meeting and better wrestling...
...service was opened with the singing of the anthem "Alla Trinita." Dr. Andrew P. Peabody preached the sermon from the text found in the forty-second verse of the twenty-second chapter of Matthew: "Whose son is he?" It is often possible to learn the traits of a father from a close knowledge of the character of a son. Christ himself said, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also," and in the life of Christ we have had a perfect likeness of God's goodness and purity. In these days the trouble is that those...
...making justices in their joyful dance, the interruption by the storm, and the gradual clearing of the sky. The scene by the brook also gives a glimpse of the woods, with the movement of the water and the music of birds. The composition is one which can be heard often and enjored more at each performance...
...passage in the first chapter of John in which John is questioned about himself by the Jewish priests. He answers, "There standeth one among you whom ye know not." In our minds "education" means the training of our intellects or hearts to some high and noble ideal. We often succeed, in a partial degree, in gaining this high standard. We obtain the wealth for which we are striving, the power, and perhaps the honor, but seldom it is that we devote thest attainments to other than selfish purposes. We are neglectful of the welfare of the world although "there standeth...
...students. The evils of the present system of examinations are evidently not so developed here as in England; but the system has always been recognized as a possible source of danger in the encouragement it lends to work for rank only. The student of shallow principles and superficial attainments often forgets not only that knowledge is the first object of education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that there is a fog on account of the obscurity which...