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Young engineers that have just received an education are wont to make the mistake of thinking that their theoretical knowledge of engineering gives them an entire control of the subject. Yet they are obliged at last to realize that no text-book can be comprehensive enough to cover all the problems of practical engineering...
...difficulties that oppose Christian work in college life are three-fold. The body of students is continually changing, so that it is hard to gain and keep a foot-hold in any work. Secondly, men become so absorbed in their studies that they are wont to devote their leisure to recreation. Thirdly, few men come to college interested in Christian work...
...observed the various clauses of its treaties. The promises of the government to give comfortable houses to the Indians have not been observed in one case out of five. When we think of these things, and remember that the Sioux are a people who in years gone by were wont to roam from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness was changed into dissatisfaction, a dissatisfaction which caused them continually...
...submit any "views," that there is no excuse for our defeats. Explanation there may be, but it is not to our credit. My object in quoting the record, "H. 18, Y. 12. was not to "exult," but to shame the men into a realization that we are not wont to take second place, and ought not to be forced to take it through crass stupidity...
...undergraduates' lives for out-of-door sport." Athleties should be managed, as far as games are concerned, to favor the undergraduates. The undergraduate wants "convenience;" he does not want to suffer the least bit of inconvenience in connection with athletic contests. Convenience is his due and "he wont be happy until he gets...