Word: content
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Varsity, of the University of Toronto, a journal devoted to "Literature, University Thoughts and Events," makes the following literary criticism of the daily papers of Harvard and Cornell: "These are purely newspapers; they make no pretense of giving anything of a literary character, but content themselves with reporting the college news. The editorials are fresh and crisp, and the whole papers give a splendid evidence of the enterprise and get-up-and-get of the students of these big schools...
...Yale foot ball team took its last practice day before yesterday, and yesterday was content merely to take a run of two miles, followed by a bath in the gymnasium. According to all accounts, the Yale eleven is in excellent condition and thoroughly rested from the game of last Saturday. The eleven which will face Princeton will be identical with that which played Harvard Saturday. The two teams which will line up, then, will be as follows...
...make them foolhardy, as it certainly seems to do. In the first inning Trafford got out at second on a daring attempt to steal when only one man was out. In the sixth inning, again, with no one out Hallowell made a good steal of second, and, not content with this, tried to make third at the same time, and was thrown out. In the eighth Hovey was caught at the plate. In the ninth Cook was badly coached from first to second, and was easily retired. Altogether, seven Harvard men were thrown out on bases...
...asks the meaning of the words good, ill, and obligation,-and the casnistic which asks the measures of the various goods and ills of which men take cognizance, Professor James gives an exhaustive discussion of these three questions. His final conclusions are that we all help to determine the content of ethical philosophy so far as we contribute to the race's moral life; that the stable and systematic moral universe for which the ethical philosopher asks is fully possible only in a world where there is a divine thinker with all enveloping demands; and that in the interests...
...part we are content to let the matter rest here. We think it can be fairly said that no sufficient desire for change has been manifested on the part either of the Alumni or of the community to make change imperative. And until that time the danger and uncertainty of an overturning of all the old methods must be paramount considerations...