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...proportion to their growth, far more efficiently than he can build it up in a gymnasium. The ideal use of the gymnasium is the preliminary crew training. A completely mistaken use is that made by the so-called strong man. The best developed and most symmetrical muscles will be worthless alike to the college and to their owner if he is slow and awkward...
...panic France alone stood firm. Freely she gave of her silver to all; freely took gold from all, without fear of its becoming worthless. Thus against the action of those nations which demonetized gold, and without an ally, France maintained through this crisis the ratio...
...greatest value of religion now-a-days is to create a state of mind in which repentance is possible; when it fails to do this it becomes worthless. The religion of today is not as effective as it should be. Men need some power which will show them how to repent and can help them to do it. The Kingdom of Heaven is always at hand to every...
Alcohol is worthless both as a food and as a medicine. It is true that the medical profession is responsible for much of the drunkenness of today. One celebrated physician has said that he could cure more diseases by prescribing total abstinence for one year than by ordinary practice for one hundred years. It is also well known that Baron Liebig said that there is as much nourishment in the quantity of flour that would lie on the point of a table knife as there is in eight pints of beer...
...Irrigation is of greatest value to the country. - (a) Large areas now worthless without it: Powell, 48. - (b) 120,000,000 acres reclaimable: Sec. Noble's Report 1891. - (c) Government no longer has any good agricultural land left. - (d) Irrigated land better for agriculture than common land. - (e) Irrigation has developed the country immensely. - (x) in India: Wilson 418-20. - (y) in Southern California and in New Mexico: Sec. Noble's Report...