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...spoke from a text taken from Romans XII-15: "Rejoice with them that rejoice." For the average person it is harder to rejoice with others than to share in their sorrows. It is of course true that one is as much a duty as the other, bnt rejoicing is often a matter of conscience, and the dictates of conscience are never so strong as those of the heart. It has been said that "Life is neither a pain nor a pleasure, but a serious duty to be taken up, carried out and laid down." This is not true. Life must...
...failed only twice to make substantial gains both round left end and through the line. His work, however, was marred by frequent failures to stick to his interference, I. W. Kendall and Kernan both gained ground when called upon, but they were rather slow in starting. The backs often reached holes in the line a little too late and sometimes did not find them at all. Campbell and Blagden opened wide holes in the Wesleyan line and did excellent work in boxing the opposing tackle. J. Lawrence and Lee were also valuable in helping the backs. Wesleyan's failure...
...adoption of attractive and easy methods of work, with a careful regard to individual trails, the attempt to make education less forbidding, carried too far has resulted in robbing education of much of its mental discipline. The children brought up "along the lines of least resistance" are most often the intellectually spoiled children, "flabby of mind and will." "Education should first and foremost train; and training had for its very substance the overcoming of obstacles; furthermore, every specialty is better mastered, better understood in its relation to human life and achievement, by the man who has worked hard in other...
...easily for the worst. It is like many other powers with which God has endowed us, that it may bring within our reach much that would otherwise be beyond it. It is unlike those other powers, in that, while they must oftenest earn their desires, it may as often buy them. In our time we are seeing as never before the enormous power not only of mere wealth, but the still more gigantic powers of associated or organized wealth. But we ought not to lose sight of the fact that if such conbinations have involved loss or disablement...
James, number 5, is erratic in controling his slide and is often slow in getting away on the first part of the recover. He has been inclined to be late on the catch, but is improving in this respect...