Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will not only give the team an enjoyable trip, but will afford them two excellent matches. The granting of this petition may seem at first sight like an inconsistent infringement of the New England rule, but a little consideration will show that the action is perfectly consistent. As we understand it, the New England rule was made to restrict the course which the athletics of the time were taking. If the condition of things has so changed that it appears for the best interests of Harvard athletics that the rule should in a certain case be broken...
...help their crew. They seem to have realized what an important and beneficent factor they can become in giving the crew sufficient support to allow it to go to New London, and they have decided to make their help as great as possible. They are to give, we understand, quite a large number of concerts, and are to devote all the proceeds, above bare necessary expenses, to supporting their crew. Such little luxuries as a dinner we believe they mean to deny themselves, in order that they may do their very best to make the raising of funds easy. This...
...weeks before the last Saturday in May," thereby setting the games for this year on May 14. With the date thus fixed it lay with the Yale to choose a place. As the meeting was held in secret, nothing definite can be said, but we are given to understand that Harvard was willing to accept any grounds which Yale should name. What Mr. Whitney can find unsportsmanlike in this, it is hard...
Since then it has been at the bat, at the oar, and with the ball, conducted by undergraduates, and has drawn larger audiences. The country does not yet understand that education develops both the body and the mind. No careful observer would take away any of the athletic characteristics of our colleges...
...found great generals and glorious achievements. The other allows the individual to lapse into the back-ground and applauds good works, deeds of charity and service. The way in which history has been written is largely responsible for the former view. We are, however, just beginning to understand the new Testament. More and more we are beginning to realize that the truly great men are the missionaries, the philanthropists, and the other servants of God. Christ came not to be ministered unto but to minister, and Paul, perhaps of all men most resembling Christ. Paul the great logician and scholar...