Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practice alluded to is one which I am afraid is only too common, and if Harvard is engaged in it I trust you will aid me in putting a stop to it by giving me the information asked...
...should be condemned cordially; but instead of that one hears him commiserated for being compelled to keep in training four or five months in the year. Such a spirit will never defeat Yale and Princeton. Men go out to the ball games and sit like so many dummies, almost afraid to cheer lest they may hurt their opponent's feelings, and if they do cheer it is not the old ringing, victory bringing, Harvard shout but a slow dirgelike moan that presages defeat. Would that I may be proved in error as to this in the coming Yale game...
...Harvard is more afraid of Cornell than of Columbia as is apparent from their unconditional refusal to row with us. Harvard knows our superiority and with their usual policy at once refused to row. We are not puffed with conceit as a result but have our own opinions just the same about the New London races...
...first round of feather-weight sparing was between F. L. Dabney, '91, and H. S. McPherson, '91. Dabney had a decided advantage in weight, but he seemed afraid of his opponent. Both men showed a great tendency to close in, so that in the first round there were thirteen clinches and only about three fair blows. McPherson struck hard, and drew blood early in the third round. The advantage was so clearly on his side that it was not considered necessary to finish the bout...
...place unless there is given to us for our aid, three great factors, liberty, righteousness and courage. No people or class ever existed which was so righteous as not to be tempted-if if had the power-to oppress any other class or people which it was afraid to trust. Therefore it is, that righteousness is a demonstrable necessity to governments. But we must be careful to carry liberty abreast with righteousness; for a tyrannous enforcement of righteousness is an unrighteous tyranny. In struggling towards our ideals, while we are helped by liberty and righteousness, we must use courage...