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...prevails unfits the soul for meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory undermine the higher aims and motives. And then, all the world meets at our door - people of different habits and ways of life. There is no unanimity of thought and practice; there is uncertainty as to which ways are the right ways; doubt and confusion prevail. The turmoil unsettles...
...thought of grandeur, no waste of time in elaborate preparations. The men of Harvard welcomed their guests and gave them of their best with abundant cordiality, but appealed to those who knew and esteemed it for its work's sake. It was clear that it did not appeal in vain and that it was strong in the affections of a vast body of its graduates, and in the kindly regard of its academic rivals. An Englishman might meditate on Mr. Lowell's eloquent tribute to the historic glories of Oxford and Cambridge, and think that Harvard was not without compensation...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Will you kindly call attention through your columns to the immediate need of new lockers in the gymnasium. Over 50 applicants have waited long in vain for them, although it was promised long ago that they should be built...
...impossible to get the necessary books, what more reasonable request can be made than that some other method of study should be recommended by the instructor? It is an undoubted fact, too, that many hours of valuable time are wasted every day by members of the course in the vain hunt for books, which other members of the course are reading in some secluded nook in the library. We do not mean to underrate the admirable system of references which Dr. Hart has compiled with such care. They are invaluable to the students of American history, and nowhere can such...
...freshmen. On the steps of University cheers were given for the eleven, individual players, the classes, and finally for Harvard. Then a rush was made for Jarvis field, the scene of the victory, and a good-sized bonfire was soon in progress where lately the Yale rushers were in vain attempting to keep the ball away from their goal-posts...