Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pleasing features and the scramble around the tree many think might be changed so that individuals would have more chance of success and could compete without donning football clothes and without the danger of injury. Finally it has been suggested that some other exercise should be substituted which would tempt more of the class to participate...
...executive would be one. (2) There would be no judicial. B. It would cause great instability of government. (1) Under it the government is likely to be shaken by demagogues. (x) They would work against the ministry in the House. (y) The honor of being a minister would tempt them to overthrow the ministry. (2) The formation of a third party renders the government likely to be overturned at any time. (x) If this party goes with the opposite side, the government is overthrown. (y) Its continuance depends upon the continued support of a majority. C. Under it, affairs would...
...truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before he believes, may cut himself off from all future good. We have a right to believe any hypothesis live enough to tempt the will...
...sick man many comforts are necessary which the same man in perfect health is able and contented to do without. Foremost of these is palatable and wholesome food; yet the long distance which food must be carried is generally enough to deprive it of any quality which might tempt the appetite. The solitude which is the necessary accompaniment of a contagious disease is also far from aiding a speedy convalescence. In a suitable infirmary these unpleasant and harmful features of a college sickness could be entirely eliminated, as they have been in large part at Yale...
...proctor to restrain the confirmed cheater. The presence of an instructor in the examination room serves also as a protection to the honorable man who does not wish to be disturbed by others less earnest than himself; it prevents in large measure such combinations of circumstances which might tempt those of no very strong powers of resistance, to cheat; and, finally, it is a matter of great convenience, all question of honor out of the consideration, to those who take examinations. The system of proctors, as now in force at Harvard, does not imply a low state of honor...