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...Yale's refusal to row a match with Cornell is not most unsportsmanlike, nor more unsportsmanlike, nor at all unsportsmanlike. Yale's aquatic ambition has for many years been limited to her annual match with Harvard, and her occasional races with other colleges have been unsought, and fairly thrust upon her. Yale has never made any overtures or expressed any desire for a match with Cornell, and it would be much more justifiable to call Cornell's challenge impertinent than Yale's refusal unsportsmanlike...
...goeth not out except by prayer and fasting," as the text of his remarks. He said that God demands the spirit of prayer and fasting in every man who desires true success in any work. There are some men of brilliant genius to whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit of renunciation is the first essential of true success. When Christ spoke of fasting we may be sure he meant something broad: to fast...
...work, who does not waste his energy by dividing his thoughts between himself and his work and who does not banish all truth from his toil by dreams of paltry fame-this man finds himself at length possessed by God and wins from his own obedience the unsought, unexpected success. With this self-renunciation, with this active obedience is joined reverence, and we behold the man rising almost to the level of Christ...
What the fancy, all unsought...
...Unsought by prayer, no more they care...