Word: build
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...somewhat true, the privation is no more than what a young man must undergo in any training. When he is working for an athletic team he must always be denying himself. In religion all the restriction he must place over himself is to learn to control himself and to build up his character on a firm foundation...
...easily satisfied; it is so easy to build a wall just ahead of us and work with some application until we have reached it and then consider that we have achieved perfection. But God forbids this wall, God is omnipresent and if we trust in him all will go well...
...assured by a prominent graduate that men who have left the University in the last few years will be deeply interested in the matter. Mr. Bolles had as the central idea and the chief motive of his life here at Harvard, the support of everything which tended to build up the University and to make it better and nobler. And in his support he included movements started by the authorities, by the graduates, and by the undergraduates; but it is fair to say that to the latter class, the undergraduates, he attached his greatest sympathy and affection. To help...
...Indians as well as the colored students retain the influence of their training even when they return to their old surroundings, and many build comfortable homes for themselves in the midst of surrounding squalor and ignorance...
...success. Up to the opening of 1892 no systematic out-of-door work had been given the students. Rowing was then introduced under careful supervision, and aroused such interest that 175 of the young women competed for positions on the crews. The class of '96 raised $2,500 to build a boat-house last year, and Dr. W. A. Brooks, a former oarsman of Harvard coached the crews...