Word: answer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defense, tricks and strategies, plays for emergencies, and plans of operation. This has become the duty of the coaches and the captain. The coach is usually a graduate who has sacrificed a vacation at some other period of the year to assist in the fall work. Thus the coaches answer an excellent purpose in taking from the players the too fascinating and engrossing study of tactics. The reason that college authorities are so little moved by the clamor against athletics is that they know from the results of their previous and continuing investigations that the good far overbalances the evil...
What has given Buddha his great influence, is not so much the theory which he propounded as the beautiful, mild life which he practiced. When men asked what the Nirvanah was to be, and what was the explanation of existence, he would answer, "Do not discuss what Nirvanah is; it is the going out from your souls of the fires of passion and lust." Thus he brought his questioners down to the practical duties of life. When we see how good and lovable a man he was and how he tried to make men better, both in his time...
What makes an object picturesque, he said, is the first question to be solved, and it is a decidedly hard question to answer. Beauty is that quality which is constituted in rich, easy flowing lines,- the outline of the human figure, for example; but the picturesque is that subtle quality which results from nature's perfecting the crude attempts of man to produce beauty...
...text cannot by any imaginable possibility affect the spiritual integrity of the Bible. But, the question comes again, can we be sure of the authenticity of the story of the resurrection, if we are obliged to admit that some historical errors have been made? To this, then, is an answer: We owe much to the faithful scholarship that has investigated the resurrection, and placed the integrity of that great event beyond dispute...
...stay out and try to hold the balance between parties; but such men ignore the fact that achievement is possible only by compromise and union. What parties need now is not principles, but men, the best, the wisest men of the country. In the face of this need the answer of the independent comes like hollow mockery. Well might parties say to such men: "We asked for bread and ye gave us a stone...