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...simple and effective manner the story of his life. Born of respectable parents he received an ordinary education and learned the trade of an iron moulder. His fondness for drink proved his ruin, and seven years ago he was a wretched outcast of the worst type. He struggled in vain against his terrible failing, till through the efforts of Mr. Hadley he was brought to pray to Jesus Christ. That alone saved him and Mr. Griffin says that is the only thing can save others...
...college janitor, not without much vain protesting, was carried about the yards upon a door by the class. This led to other pranks and Class-day became so notorious that crowds gathered each year to witness the orgies. The custom of serving punch still existed, but the new generation was more susceptible to the intoxicating influence than the preceding one had been, and it became necessary for the authorities to institute a reform. President Quincy accordingly notified the Class-day committee of '38 that if there was any drinking or dancing on that day, the members of the committee would...
Professor Kittredge related the story of King Arthur, when he was at the mercy of the cruel knight. He was given a year in which to discover what women liked most. Arthur and Gawain hunted high and low in vain, till a most filthy and ugly woman said she would save King Arthur, if Gawain would wed her. The tale says she was the ugliest woman alive, yet Gawain readily offered to marry her. So she told Arthur that women liked sovereignty most. Thus Arthur escaped, but poor Gawain found an arrogant mistress in his wife. At last, however...
...generally conceded that of all torments remorse is the worst. Lady Macbeth in vain tried to wash from her hands the blood stains, and Bill Sykes could not escape the eyes of Nancy. They gazed up in to his from the clear waters, they looked down from the blue sky, and as he threw himself in a frenzy on the ground and buried his face in his hands, they peered out of the depths of the earth. But the Christian need not fear remorse; his thoughts are not for the past but for the future. He knows that his sins...
Harvard's Firm Srand.Then Harvard played hard and Yale bucked the line in vain. McClung took the ball back twenty yards to keep it for Yale; but they lost it on four downs. Trafford punted. Bliss kicked in return, but Newell broke through and stopped it, getting the ball on Yale's 45-yard line...