Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...James Martineau, the well-known teacher and writer, has a wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...
...most brilliant work on the field was Lake's. He repeatedly made runs of half the length of the field. They were very showy, but anything but the result of team work; for in the second half Amherst's left end and in fact the whole team seemed afraid of Lake and made little attempt to tackle...
...great principles are first, the necessity of life; second, obedience. These are constantly denied. Men are afraid of too much life, and each soul asserts itself against obedience. In the perfect world of which we dream there will be two elements, life and obedience...
...life; but they will meet with a new aspect of it, and though the old religion may not entirely disappear, it will be broadened and changed in the new. At college the new comer enters into a year which nothing that ever lived will bring back. Do not be afraid of truth or discussion; nothing will ever sorrow you as the old tradition, the old song sins away while you learn a new one, and as God reveals himself...
...speaking of remissness on the part of one athletic team, we are glad to note equal diligence on the part of another. The cricket team has begun its matches very auspiciously. The men have shown that they are not afraid of hard work; and they have, moreover, a just estimate of how much of this work is necessary. In addition to the regular intercollegiate matches, they are to play an important game with Yale. The Yale men, if we may believe the reports from New Haven, are working unusually hard to put a winning team in the field. In view...