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...such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only a very difficult thing, calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience as well. Translating teaches us as nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have...
...that the Athletic Committee has not confirmed the reelection of Mr. Waters as captain of the eleven will probably not cause much surprise, considering the fact that the committee put itself on record a few weeks ago as against the principle of graduate captains. It was stated in the plainest way, when this announcement was made, that in the opinion of the committee, the best interests of Harvard athletics demanded that the captaincy of the teams be confined to undergraduates. An exception was made in the case of baseball for the perfectly obvious reason that there was no undergraduate...
...great college questions. It is well worth the reading, for though the subject that caused its publication has little interest to us, yet the question therein shown in so clear a light concerns us as nearly as it ever can Dickinson College. To put the matter in its plainest light it is this: A student finds himself in difficulty, a difficulty which has nothing to do with his studies. The faculty take up the case and try to inform themselves accurately as to the student's position, in order to judge him. This has happened enough within the last five...
...text was taken from the 96th Psalm, the 9th verse, "Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." In the old Hebrew usage this was taken in its liberal meaning, and a beautiful dress was considered necessary in worshipping the Lord. The beauty of holiness makes the plainest face look bright and happy; it makes the sick smile, and the old appear as if they had the crown of life. In old age a man's features are moulded by his character and the life he has led. The word holiness was originally wholeness, and without the latter idea...
...done by this same correspondent in the report of the freshman class meeting. It seems to me, at least, that when a man assails another man's reputation in the public press and describes his alma mater in an untrue light, he should be made to perceive in the plainest manner possible that he has been violating the traditions of good breeding, and that the rest of the college think...