Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Seventy-third Psalm David considers and solves the perplexity which has been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...
These statistics certainly do not tend to sustain the idea, which is perhaps somewhat general, that Cornell is unreligious...
Ninety-four with a victory over Yale to their classes' credit it is unnecessary to stimulate to sustain the reputation of their foot ball team...