Word: behind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...come to you and the Class by the loss of your son, Francis. His unvarying good humor, his bright disposition and kindheartedness endeared him to the friends he made among us, and made his loss the more deeply felt. He was sincere and constant in his friendship, and left behind him memories of goodness, kindness and unselfishness. For the Class, EDMUND J. D. COXE. WILLIAM N. TAYLOR. THOMAS STOKES. VICTOR C. MATHER RICHARD DERBY. ARCHIBALD G. MONKS. WILLIAM C. CLARK...
...pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same from year to year, without attempting to vary them by new and tricky plays which have to be practiced in secret behind high fences...
Last summer a plot of ground behind the north football stand on Soldiers Field was laid out as a practice cricket crease. Heretofore the cricket team has been severely inconvenienced by the lack of a good practice ground, but the new crease will do away with this want to a great extent...
...Behind the line, the loss of Hale, Sharpe and Fincke leaves Chadwick the only member of the 1900 team. Team work will accordingly have to make up for individual brilliancy...
...Endicott Peabody, following Professor Moore, spoke briefly on the words of St. Paul, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." St. Paul bids men forget and cast away old sins, and, not content with mere resistance of temptation, press forward from height to height to the goal of ultimate perfection...