Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Daniel Pratt has returned to the classic shades of Cambridge and entertains students going to and from Memorial Hall with learned dissertations upon Sam Jones and Sam Small, who, he declares, are afraid to except his challenge to speak in public on topics connected with the bible...
...several sophomores just as the entire class was about to start on a sleigh-ride. The police interfered and rescued the sophomores. The class then drove to the place where they were to hold their banquet, but found it surrounded by such a crowd of freshmen that they were afraid to alight. The result of the whole affair is that several men are to be expelled by the Faculty...
There would be no difficulty I think in getting a long list of members, but it would be very had to pursuade men to make the most of the club. The members would mostly he sleeping-members I am afraid; for the difficulty is to provide a motive to bring men regularly, often to the club, and what motive is there. Their friends they can see in their own rooms and there be more at home; - acquaintances they can meet in the playing fields, anywhere, - and what is the chance of meeting any given person among so many? Books, they...
...industrial problems. Dr. Washington Gladden's course of nine lectures on the relation of the ministry and the church to social problems has been successfully inaugurated here this week. Dr. Gladden is a prominent representative of the increasing number of younger clergymen in the Congregational body who are not afraid to grapple with socialism and in the light of the gospel they preach, to unmask its errors and acknowledge its elements of strength. The present course of lectures is the outcome of a year's close study and Dr. Gladden comes to his audience with new material, carefully matured suggestions...
...there is any college that can afford to reject a challenge without loss of dignity, that college is our own; by refusing Yale's demand, we show that we have no apprehension of its being said that "Harvard accepted Yale's challenge because she was afraid of being called a coward if she refused...