Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Bicycle Club has received from Yale the following answer to its challenge...
...circular containing the petition which is published on the first page, will be sent to every member of the faculty, instructor and student in college, so as to be received in tomorrow morning's mail. Enclosed with the petition will be found a postal card, requiring merely the answer of "yes" or "no," and the signature of the receiver. We hope to make the petition a means of interesting the corporation sufficiently to take active steps in the matter, but the entire success of the plan depends upon the support the CRIMSON receives from the college. We there-fore...
...success of the petition depends upon a full expression of opinion from all who are connected with the college-members of the faculty, instructors and students alike-will you have the kindness to answer immediately the enclosed postal card affirmatively or negatively...
...Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, Lafayette and Williams. A meeting will be held in Philadelphia on January 25 to discuss plans, at which the colleges mentioned above will be represented. Cornell, Lafayette and Pennsylvania have already declared their intention of joining, and it is possible that Columbia and Williams will also answer favorably. A league between these colleges would occasion a great struggle for the championship, as hitherto their nines have been very evenly matched...
...question is often asked why our lives are so fettered by conditions hostile to the advancement of spiritual goodness; the answer is that without opposition there would be no stimulus for us to exercise our full strength in the attainment of perfect lives. Only by opposition was Samson stimulated to break the strong cords which bound him. God is ever filling our lives with temptations and doubts in order that we, by overcoming these forces, may make our souls heroic, and get an unshaken trust in the Almighty who rules over us. As long as we become stronger fighters...