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...sort of way, will slip into his plate tart after tart that I am vainly endeavoring to get at (I may remark, parenthetically, that I am physically small and weak), yet the man is so perfectly pleasant about it that in the present state of affairs I cannot publicly proclaim my disgust at his behavior...
...space in our recent exchanges. Religious feeling cannot be criticised and judged like other things; yet, although the semi-familiar manner in which religious matters are referred to in the Yale and Princeton papers would not be surprising in ignorant revivalists, it seems a little extraordinary in people who proclaim themselves to be "cultivated Christians." And the object of the revival appears to be simply belief. The revivalists of to-day, like those of the camp-meetings of twenty years ago, cry out, in substance, "Believe right, - i. e. as we do, - no matter what you do!" The true cultivated...
...other places nearer home; (for where else can fourteen boats row abreast? and if the boats do not row abreast, how is each individual small college to know its exact position relative to every other little college?) and in virtue of the fact that, as the newspapers exultingly proclaim, the race has now become a great national sporting event, the sporting men must take it in hand; it must lose its distinctive college characteristics, and, like a great public show, must be held at the town of which the citizens offer the highest bids. If, however, the offers...
...Proclaim that head - which, crownless, still would be - august...
...dogmatism in its most absolute phase, and establish a terrorism over the minds of his pupils. Is it for a learner to state objections? By no means. Shall we doubt anything? Not at all. But, to carry dogmatism to its extreme verge, he is at stated intervals formally to proclaim liberty of opinion and invite freedom of discussion. Having thus forced the whole system of metaphysics upon the young idea, it will incontinently reject all and of course adopt the opposite side, which of course was the thing aimed...