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...races will be held upon the new track now being built in Cambridge. It is a third of a mile in circumferance, and will embody the latest improvements in track construction. No expense has been spared to make this the fastest and safest track in the world. Mr. Corcoran, so long identified with the Waltham track, is to have entire charge...
...started to cheer, in all probability these outsiders would seize on the moment for extreme demonstrations, and then what of Harvard's reputation? If anything goes wrong, the general public will never discriminate between Harvard men and the outsiders; the whole blame will be thrown upon us. It is safest not to give an opportunity to noise-seekers...
...college at large there has long existed a desire for some definite knowledge about the workings of the Athletic Committee. During the past two years there has been a steadily growing feeling that the Committee is doing a great deal for Harvard athletics, in fact that it is the safest body to which to entrust the athletic welfare of the college. The students, therefore, want to be solidly behind the Committee and in a position to support it intelligently. Doubtless there are many men in college who have found themselves called upon to defend the action of the Athletic Committee...
...Oxnard spoke next for the negative. When we make a law a part of our national constitution it becomes solidified there, and is not easily ejected. This question of divorce is one of the experimented sciences, and the safest place for its laws at present is in the state government, which is more easily changed. There is an advantage in state divorce laws, which is that each state sees, and avoids the errors of other state laws, and in this way, aids in obtaining perfectness...
...years ago that the survival of the fittest did not explain that inscrutable something which causes the fittest to appear. We are all here to demand loyalty to the self-evident truths on which science rests. The unsearchable wisdom of God in the source of all forms. It is safest for you to look to Germany and Scotland for fundamental philosophical truths. England is a pigmy compared with Scotland and Germany on these truths. I advise you, kneeling on Asa Gray's grave, to repeat his creed word for word, namely the Nicene creed...