Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coming generation will see many changes. Newspapers will contain more important news than they do at present. Health is the object of ou education, a healthy mind, a healthy body, a healthy moral sentiment; and athletics should be a means to attain this...
...speakers it was evident that a good many, both graduates and undergraduates, were of the opinion that immediate action would be inexpedient. Still the opinion of the majority seemed to be that Harvard should take some definite stand against professionalism in college athletics, and that the best means to attain the desired end was to withdraw unconditionally from the football league. Objections to offering to form a dual league with Yale were raised and were answered by the argument that Harvard in her stand against professionalism should not refuse to accept the cooperation of the first college ready to join...
Observation is the first of our faculties. The phenomena of philosophy are first observed, then arranged and systematized by the analytical and synthetical faculties; and thus we attain the unity which must pervade the phenomena of philosophy. This unity is at first imperfect, but we are gradually working toward a complete and harmonious concord...
...daily. Especial attention is being paid to the drop upon which the men will largely depend for their success this year, since the strength of the team will probably be far below that of the famous '88 team which has so creditably represented the university. If we are to attain success this year, it is necessary that those men whose chances are good should come out and try at once, as it is desirous to choose the regular team as quickly as possibly, and give them practice together...
...best of health, and yet be utterly dead-that we may be dying and yet have an abundance of real life. Real resurrection for us means the change from the rule of the flesh to the liberty of the soul. We may in the present life "attain unto the resurrection of the dead," but we must ask ourselves if we are alive, if our hopes, ambitions and affections are set in the right way. Examples are before us constantly of men who have had this resurrection-men pure, and leading lives of courage and usefulness...