Word: element
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Freshman class. To the impartial mind it would seem that some change in the requirements which would establish either three years or four years as the normal period for the attainment of the bachelor's degree would be preferable to the present state of confusion in which the valuable element of class unity is so largely lost...
...students are amateurs, not professionals." Or, as President Hadley is fond of putting it, "The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that the is not going to use in after life, by methods that he is going to use. The former element gives the breadth, the latter element gives the training...
...Bates game was 18 to 0 in favor of Harvard, but as is was played nearly two weeks later in the season the University team was a far more finished and powerful machine. The game, however, was by no means disappointing. There was considerable team work, and element which is very often wanting in the early games, and time and again the runner was pulled along many yards after he seemed to be stopped...
...were never unsettled; they played hard and fast, and they played to win. Harvard's pitchers were the better and the Harvard team the steadier. In the words of one of the Yale players, "Harvard had the better team, but Yale had the luck to start with"; the element of luck which favored Yale at the outset was counterbalanced by Harvard's luck later. It is a satisfaction to feel that the only earned run of the game was that which gave us the victory. It is also worthy of note that the man who made the hit which brought...
...Catholicism as illustrated in the Roman Catholic Church. The Modernists of that church are allied in many ways to Protestant liberalists. The fa- mous papal bull of 1907 defined Modernism with adequate correctness. The Modernists lay emphasis on biblical criticism, relativity of dogma, immanence of God, and the social element in religion. The absolute authority of the pope is questioned. They consider that the authority of the bishops rests on the people and not on their succession to the Apostles. The conception of the Catholic Church is opposed to all these views...