Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...approach of the third annual contest between the track athletes of Yale and Harvard has been the cause of an endless amount of conjeeture upon the merits of the respective teams and the probable outcome of the games to be held on Holmes field to-morrow afternoon. The public performances of the different men afford the only means of comparing the merits of the contestants and many surprises may be in store for both teams, but it is with a keen appreciation of the uncertainty of predicting the outcome of the several events that this article is written...
Hearing that I hold decided views in regard to rowing, you have kindly asked me to write a short article on the training of the crew. I approach this subject with diffidence, for I am well aware that one has pet superstitions in regard to the best way of applying strength to an oar; but when one reflects that distinguished physicians recommend certain remedies and other equally renowned doctors denounce the same remedies one is forced to confess that the only scientific way to decide upon the truth of various theories is to resort to scientific study and experiment...
...With the approach of favorable weather the number of men will be increased and the building doubtless completed according to the contract...
...personality which saves men is often the object of merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...
...dignity in the presence of strangers, such indifference to the menace alike of small dog and "mucker," such unbird like fearlessness had never before been seen. They sat on the snow under the trees just back of University Hall, eating the seeds that had fallen, permitted the curiours to approach within a yard or two without manifesting the slig test timidity. "What makes them so tame?" everyone asked...