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...which he belongs. If he does not, he becomes inhuman. Each truth must be aware of the great whole of truth which it utters; if it does not it becomes untrue. Each star must quiver with the movement of the system, or it is a mere waif and stray of brilliance, living at random in the sky. Each article of faith must feel the creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Evening Services. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...limitless. Is it possible for us to fill it all with tobacco smoke? Yea, verily: or ever the morrow's sun. shall rise this vast space shall be packed with dense smoke as with a tangible substance, so that from the flattest-sprawled student beneath a table to the stray bird that seeks an outlet from the highest pane above, each pair of lungs shall be laden with the all-pervading incense of the Indian weed. What can thousands of deter mined men, puffing ceaselessly at thousands of monumental pipes, not accomplish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Heidelberg Jubilee. III. | 11/3/1886 | See Source »

Their sweet faint blush to the winds that stray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 6/16/1886 | See Source »

...following bit of ingenuous confession on the part of a Yale man will cause a few stray smiles: "The work of blasting the rocks from the side of the hills of the Yale field progresses rapidly and we have hopes of having a level field in order to play ball next Spring." - Extract from a Yale letter. - Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1886 | See Source »

...celebrations be given into the hands of the students, as the committee proposes, there would be an end, we think, to such noisy and untimely proceedings; then every man will feel responsible for the general good conduct, and the disorderly spirits, instead of having to evalde the few stray watch men, will find their movements watched by the large body of orderloving students. At other colleges when such liberty has been allowed, no complaint is heard, and it has been found that if students are entrusted with power there is no tendency to abuse it: on the contrary they take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/26/1885 | See Source »

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