Word: rather
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yesterday afternoon Harvard in a measure retrieved her defeat of last week by beating Dartmouth with a score of three to two. The game was rather slow and uninteresting, but was nevertheless encouraging, as it was the best played game the nine have put up this season. With the exception of Whittemore's two errors, the fielding was swift and sure. The outfield had little work to do. For the infield Winslow and Stevenson put up the best games. The fielding of the former was very good, but he does not seem to know what to do when he reaches...
President Dwight has issued his annual report, and as usual makes no mention whatever of athletics. In reference to the criticisms advanced by the press that Yale's growth has been external and material rather than intellectual, the president says: "The education is better, wider, larger than it was ten years since, and every man who will use what the university offers will receive for himself the better and larger result. The inner life of the institution is growing as the outer life is growing, and this is the right and healthful growth - the growth of the two together...
...more qualities that go to the making of a man than self-reliance, which well becomes only a strong character on which reliance may confidently be placed, and is therefore unbecoming in young boys, whose characters are necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes not true manliness, but rather a heedless independence which is incompatible with it. To put a boy in the way of such development the neglect of higher, is a grave mistake. Self-reliance should not be born of mere freedom from restraint, but of a consciousness of power which can hardly accompany the school...
...four things. We have sufficient evidence now. We do not need external church unity, because we see the church is not relatively stronger in the countries where it has such unity. We know enough about the future, and it is well that the future lies in mystery. We need rather a better knowledge of the present...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the colleges. - (a) Harmful to the students. (See II and III). - (b) Affects the proper flow of pupils to the college. - (x) Many choose a college for its athletic record rather than for its real advantages. - (c) Gives preparatory pupils a false ideal of the purpose of a college, thus encouraging the development of athletic instead of intellectual ability. - (d) Represents colleges to the community as places of leisure and training schools for athletes, instead of centres of learning...