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...Princeton, 0.University of Pennsylvania defeated Princeton on Saturday by a score of 12 to 0. The result of the game is one of the surprises of the football season, and it is the first time that Princeton has been beaten, without being able to score herself, by another college than Harvard or Yale. The Princeton team was outplayed at almost every point, and was kept upon the defensive all through the game...
What must be the result on politics? A class of men is created who know that they must tend to politics, or lose their job. Such men become the mercenaries of corrupt political leaders. Against them are arrayed decent men, but these decent men cannot have any such organization as do the mercenaries. Organized corruption has good chances of winning against unorganized decency. The only way to break up this organization of corruption is by taking away from the political leaders the offices by which they pay themselves...
Philosophers have said that the existence of pain and wrong is hard to reconcile with the idea of a God of love. In fact, ever since men began to seek for truth this matter has been the burden of their thought. The result has usually been that in order to defend the infinity of God's goodness they have had to admit that his power was finite. This was the position of John Stuart Mill, - the Manichaean view, though Mr. Mill did not go so far as to personify evil. The Calvinistic view is really nearer to modern thought, when...
This antagonism is seen in the theory of natural selection which underlies evolution. In the lower species the range of functions exercised is small, and weakness in any of them is likely to result in extinction. In the more highly evolved species there is a greater number of faculties and consequently a greater variety of opportunities for the superiority of one individual over another. Therefore when we get to man we find a partial suspension of the law of natural selection, because if one man is superior in a certain respect to his fellows, so they in various other respects...
...half and by successive rushes, aided by excellent interference, scored four touchdowns, but this rapid pace told on the men. When the second half began the Harvard players were tired and unable to withstand the aggressive attacks of their lightweight opponents. Both of Cornell's touchdowns were accidental, the result of stopped punts, and might have been avoided had the backs shown better judgment and the line held firmer. The dashing aggressiveness of Cornell in the second half surprised everybody and the Harvard players were completely taken aback, Manahan and J. N. Shaw being so exhausted as to make little...