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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While we are on the subject of the freshmen, a word to the class eleven will not be out of place. These last days of practice are the ones which will tell most. The team is playing a fair game and there is no reason at all why it should not settle down in the remaining days of practice to the really first class work of which it is capable. Now that the 'varsity game has been lost it is more than ever incumbent upon the freshmen to represent the college well. Remember, Ninety-five, that no Harvard freshman foot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/24/1891 | See Source »

...typified by the Pharisee in the parable and by Saint Paul. The first is an enumeration of the virtues that the praiser finds in himself coupled with thanks to God that they are so beautiful. The second kind of praise, that which Paul uses, expresses humility in every word. It thanks God, of course, for the benefits He has sent, but sees in them gifts which are all the more loving for being so little deserved. The first kind of thanksgiving is for possessions that are too good even to be thought of by "ordinary" men, the second for bounty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Vesper Service. | 11/20/1891 | See Source »

Cary, as is said, has Miltonized Dante and Mr. Longfellow's work while the best in metre is often misleading. In Professor Norton's translation the sense is rendered literally and almost word for word in prose, perfect in strength and elegance. The charm imparted by such flawless form in which each word chosen is felt to be the only word perfectly suited, is so great that one reads and forgets to miss the swing of a metre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Norton's Translation of Dante. | 11/18/1891 | See Source »

...thoughts in these discussions, he said, have been centored upon the presence everywhere and at all times of a great Reality. We have used the words Power and Reason as being truly descriptive of that Reality. We have seen that the knowledge which that power must have of the sympathetic creatures which it has made, suggests the presence of something like sympathy in it. We need not be surprised at finding something like feeling in the Eternal Force. No one knows force who thinks of it simply as producing physical motion. Plants, animals and men show us other aspects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sympathy of God. | 11/11/1891 | See Source »

...have once given an afternoon to this exhilarating sport become frequent joiners in the runs, but word of invitation should be extended generally to the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare and Hounds. | 11/10/1891 | See Source »

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