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...government under which we fought, and under which our fore-fathers fought. More than once since I returned from France have I seen or heard things that were insults. They were insults not only to the cause for which we fought, but to our comrades whom we left wrapt in the sacred soil of France. It is our duty to see that their graves are not trampled upon. MARSHALL A. THOMPSON...
...ever does anything in a spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there, and deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter. Then he consults his watch...
...more liberated and enlarged relation to the intended conditions and elemental supply of the thing which acts and moves. There is no true sign of the divine presence in the divine care of the world than that. The Church of Christ begins almost as a Jewish institution. It is wrapt around with Jewish prejudices It treads at every step on the lines of Jewish exclusiveness. But it lives; it moves; it does its work, and by and by it has found out for itself and it is asserting before the world, that its field is universal human nature; that...
...boat-house stands directly below the 'varsity quarters. This is a long, low building, plainly built, and is used by both the university and freshman crews. Besides their regular shell, the 'varsity always carry down an extra one, to provide against accident, and this we can see wrapt up in cloths on the floor of the boat house. The boat-house provides accommodation for the boatman, and for the engineer of the launch...
There are girls who are wrapt up in parties...