Word: clear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...boat race between Harvard, Yale and Cornell which was to have taken place this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock has been postponed until 12.30 tomorrow on account of unfavorable conditions. At two o'clock this afternoon it looked as if the race would certainly be rowed. There was a clear sky and light wind from the west. The observation train and big steamboats, crowded with spectators, moved up to the start. At the same time the Cornell crew put out from their quarters in the launch, and with the shell in tow started for Red Top, the quarters...
...water was fairly smooth and a steady breeze blew down the course. Courtney refused, however, to permit his crew to race, although Harvard and Yale were both willing. The race was accordingly postponed until 7 o'clock. At that time the storm had lifted and the sun shone out clear and strong. The change in the tides necessitated the race being rowed up stream, and everything was in readiness. No crews, however, appeared at the start, and it was finally announced by the referee that the race would take place tomorrow at 12.30 o'clock...
...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
...American government is distressing, but must be borne with patience. That there are good reasons why every young man in the country who has the impulse to enlist should think twice before he follows it we can not doubt; President Eliot has made for us a very clear and noble aualysis of the different motives to enlistment. But two of the ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition that the patriotism of college men is different from that of Americans who haven...
...limits which legislation sets to the citizen's declared duty of bearing arms, recognize under various conditions the supremacy of duty to the family over duty to the state, the permanence of the family being a supreme object in the state. Under our own conditions then, it is clear that no one is justified in enlisting whose family is, or may become dependent on him for support...