NARRATIVE OF THE NINES - 1899 . youth and age, gray hairs and childish innocence and 24 tender womanhood—all alike are eng-ulfed in the drowninofsea. The sea, therefore, is not a symbol of divine is the very emblem of tremendous and remorselesspower. Indeed, if nature had no other face but this, wecould hardly believe in God, or at least, that He had gentleattributes ; we could only stand on the shore of existence,and shake with terror at the presence of a being of infinitepower, but cold and pitiless as the waves that roll from theArctic pole. Our Saviour walked on the waves, but lef


NARRATIVE OF THE NINES - 1899 . youth and age, gray hairs and childish innocence and 24 tender womanhood—all alike are eng-ulfed in the drowninofsea. The sea, therefore, is not a symbol of divine is the very emblem of tremendous and remorselesspower. Indeed, if nature had no other face but this, wecould hardly believe in God, or at least, that He had gentleattributes ; we could only stand on the shore of existence,and shake with terror at the presence of a being of infinitepower, but cold and pitiless as the waves that roll from theArctic pole. Our Saviour walked on the waves, but leftthereon no impress of his feet; nor can we find there a traceof the love of God as it shines in the face of Jesus were eight days out of sight of land. Water, watereverywhere ! Ocean to the right of us, ocean to the left ofus, ocean in front of us, and ocean behind us, with two orthree miles of ocean under us. But our good ship, theLucania bore us over the sea like a conqueror, and welanded safe, at last. U/ U/ \U. 99 IN ATHLETICS. It is impossible for an outsider to form any true concep-tion of the position held by a class in college until he is inpossession of all the facts connected with the class Thegeneral history of 99 has been written, but in this articlewe wish to give a more minute account of her successesand her failures in the realm of college sports. When a boy comes to college he is supposed to be ableto take care of himself; to know a few Latin and Greekconstructions, to doff his hat to the Professors; but aboveall he must know the first rudiments of base ball or he isbranded as having issued from the ark, while the schoolfrom which he came is at once associated with the fairGarden where cuts and kicks and broken bones were neverknown. The members of 99 come and brought withthem the required essentials. A week had hardly passedbefore some of our boys were willing to test their skill, onthe diamond, against the unknown ability of the upperclassmen. Fro


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