Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play throughout was loose. Gage's passing was poor, but that was partly accounted for by the poor fashion in which Shea snapped the ball back, All the first eleven backs fumbled...
...college. Such assurances, however, can best be supported by an enthusiastic demonstration by the college. We hope that every man will be on hand to give the team a hearty send-off. It is a tremendous encouragement to the men to have the college show its loyalty in this fashion...
...author. Francis Parkman's second paper on "The Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia" is marked by the still and care which Mr. Parkman devotes to everything he writes, and Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" continues for three more chapters in its usual vivacious fashion...
...Harvard spirit in the land than athletic successes alone will account for. Perhaps the successful working of the elective system is dispelling the doubts which a great part of our alumni felt at first regarding its wisdom. At any rate, the fact that "Harvard indifference" is going out of fashion out of college as well as in it, is patent to all readers of the newspapers. President Eliot's tour in the West serves partly to account for this, but more to illustrate it. For the fact let us congratulate each other, be the reasons what they...
...even in this fashion it is still true that one great element of the evil in the world remains not only unexplained, but from our finite point of view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with...