Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heard of Yale's freshman team this year is no criterion of their strength. We may be sure that they will work to win, and that is more than half the game. The presence-of 'varsity men too, must not inspire undue confidence in our eleven. There is no reason why the team if rightly used should not win; but too much self-confidence, or too little conscientiousness will leave just the loop-hole for which we may be sure Yale's team will be looking...
Yale has defeated Harvard of late years but the reason is not apparent. We have more students than Yale and ought to put as good teams on the field. If our defeats are due to unscrupulousness on Yale's part, we must not complain, provided we have used the same means but not as successfully. All Harvard men naturally would like to see Harvard first in athletics, but victory must not be bought by a sacrifice of honor. Harvard students must remember that the object of this college is to fit men for the positions they will occupy in after...
...sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first...
...Anabaptists and others, who claimed like himself to have cast aside all authority and to teach from divine inspiration, began to doubt his own position. The agony of his soul's struggle we can but faintly understand. At the end of it he was no longer the champion of reason and religious individualism but their greatest defamer. It was in this spirit that he urged the persecution of the peasants, and disputed with Zivingli at Marburg concerning the Eucharist. There was something naively terrible in the vehemence with which he devoted himself to contending with his old followers...
...they must feel from first to last that Harvard is unwavering in their support. It is just as much our duty to cheer the team when the tide is setting against us as it is for the team to play the game out to the end. For this reason, not only should all of us who can possibly get away goto Springfield next Saturday, but we should arrange as far as possible, to seat all the Harvard men together and make preparations for systematic cheering of our team. There is no reason why the Princeton game should discourage...