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...sport, and would cut down the number of men playing, as there would be no call for a second team, and class teams would be made up of men now on the University squad. Hockey as a sport is one of the most exciting and probably the purest of all sports...
...aside from its spiritual and religious power, we should appreciate the literary value of a book written at a time when the English language was strongest and purest. By constant intimacy with the Bible, by mastering it and being mastered by it, we shall find that our power of expression is immensely increased in the possession of such a glorious store of literature...
Another reason is that ignorance of uncleanness is the secret of freedom. There is something terrible about the grip of evil. The more a man tries to forget it, the more it grips him. Even the purest man knows something of its slavery and shame...
...there has been a growing tendency for athletes to enter the university as special students, taking a minimum of courses and devoting their main energies to athletics. Such men have of course always complied with the technical rules of eligibility framed by the various intercollegiate associations, but hereafter the purest amateurism will be enforced instead of mere technical compliance...
...etchings on the heaviest India paper (a separate book with this Ed. gives portraits and histories of the artists selected, nearly all being medalists) making this Ed. by all odds the most beautiful and artistic Balzac extant. Translated by one person throughout and conceded by experts not only the purest translation but the most ideally French ever produced. The paper is the famous Riesdel, Hamburg, every page having the monogram H. De. B. in the water line. The binding a polished buckram, more durable than leather and of one uniform and lasting color. This superb set is published...