Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inexpedient. a. It attempts to legislate against something which it cannot define; Cong. Record, pp. 4254; 6391. b. Actions before Circuit Courts entail needless expense on those least able to bear it; Cong. Record p. 3254. c. The heavy penalties of the act are not likely to be enforced by juries...
...remarks and Major Higginson's letter of gift and his speech are given in full. The pamphlet should be read by all who were unable to hear Major Higginson at the time speak of the sons of Harvard to whom the field is dedicated. Moreover every Harvard man should bear in mind the closing words of the address: "You come to college to learn things of great value besides your games, which, after all, are secondary to your studies. But, in your games there is just one thing which you cannot do, even to win success. You cannot...
...regular candidates must bear in mind Captain Cumnock's instructions. It is necessary that each one of them carry the idea of foot ball 'with him all summer, and come back to college with such determination as can come only from intense enthusiasm...
Ought they not rather, simply in justice to themselves, immediately to avow their guilt, to confess their shame (their hearts by this time are full of it), to assume all charges, and then, with fit apology, to bear in a manly way any punishment that may be imposed...
...means to get rid of the culprits who committed the outrage. To go back upon this action would be to prove ourselves insincere. Our expressions of condemnation will have no weight if we are unwilling to act upon them. If we refuse to have the culprits exposed we must bear part of the blame, and our words of yesterday will have little meaning. We ought to have no sympathy for rascals whom we have so strongly denounced. They have shown themselves to be unworthy of Harvard and the college has no place for them...