Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale's new gymnasium has been opened nearly seven months, and by this time it may be fairly estimated how much the facilities for exercise have been widened and improved by it. In the last year of the existence of the old gymnasium, there was an attendance of 75 a day; so far this year the new building has had a daily attendance of over 400. Of these 75 it is estimated that 50 took regular exercise; while of the 400, 350 are now working regularly. These figures are of course, exclusive of the men training for the various athletic...
...bell yesterday afternoon served another purpose besides calling men to recitations. It announced the triumphal entry to the yard of Old John and his sumptuous turn out. The fruit business will doubtless be very much accelerated by the new donkey and though we have some forbodings about John's personal safety we wish him and his donkey long life...
...Because they dispise some Christians, they will have nothing to do with any Christians, and yet it would hardly be reasonable to say we will have nothing to do with the world because there are some objectionable people in it. Because they dislike the phrases of Christians of the old school, they shy away from ever speaking of religion, yet they will find the same thoughts underlying all these religious dialects. Because churches are dull they say they are to be eschewed, and yet no man can live his best without the influence of fixed institutions. Just as Darwin lost...
...life, to be upset upon the main doctrine they have been taught to believe. They lose their child like faith, and despair of ever regaining it. Then is a dark interlude and yet that interlude ought to come to every man, it is essential to real belief. As the old philosophers put it, we have position, opposition and composition. We doubt the doctrine, we find its contradictions and then we unite all once more and the truth is broadened and more strong and real...
Walter Scott was born in August, 1771 at a time that may well be called "the meeting of two worlds"; the old world of chivalry and romance was then passing into the modern world, and to Scott it was given to gather up the picturesqueness of the past of Scotland and hand down to us in his poems and his novels, the history of the heroic deeds of the North from the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace. It has been said that Scott was a dull boy but nothing can be farther from the truth. He was early...