Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...captain can have only a limited acquaintance in his class, and must trust to the men to respond to his calls printed in the CRIMSON. But many good men hesitate about offering themselves; some, through modesty, others through indifference; I have heard men say even in November "they thought the crew had been chosen;" some have an idea that assessments are levied on the candidates to pay expenses. Will you tell these men that it will cost them nothing but an hour's labor each day; that in order to find out who are the best men we must...
...thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires of an electrical apparatus, but in the outside air. The discovery of this fact is the great achievement of recent science...
...Princeton's evidence incriminating Harvard's players it seems rather to have been a second thought than otherwise. If Princeton has valid protests to raise against Harvard's team we fail utterly to see why these were not made at the New York convention when our challenged players appeared to answer any charges made against them, It must be remembered that the threat, or perhaps we ought to say the warning, of Princeton's manifesto has not as yet been pointed with any very telling evidence...
...should have taken place "without the notice or knowledge of Princeton? Why was it necessary to do this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why refuse to give the college time to consider it? " These questions are easily answered. It was thought that decisive action would prove that we were in earnest much more conclusively than a mere threat. There was no secrecy about the matter. Everything was done openly and avowedly. The matter of a dual league was inevitably bound up with the proposition to withdraw from...
...this subject on which he wished particularly to speak the school of natural religion in ancient Israel. The fact, said the speaker, that natural religion was a factor of no mean importance in the growth of revealed religion has hardly been well understood. The Bible used to be thought of as a unity, but modern criticism has shown that it now contains several books which certainly did not originally form a part of it, but were the product of a separate school of religion with its own teachers and writers. These are the books of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs...