Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paine has decided to sell the famous yacht "Mayflower," as he "cannot give the time required next summer for the trial races in the event of another contest for the America...
...away from the college yard because of a lack of dormitories. The members of the university are, indeed, grateful for any improvement of the university property, even if that improvement be the gilding of the Gore Hall steeples. But this is a practical age. It is true that "we cannot live by bread alone," but bread is quite necessary. If money is to be left to the university, why cannot some benefactor not gain immortality for himself and his gift by leaving his bequest wholly under the jurisdiction of the university government...
...experience of last July points out many reasons, and it cannot be too strongly impressed on the managers of the '90 crew that it is their duty to firmly decline any overtures from Yale '90, and to make their race a Harvard-Columbia race as it has been all these years. The men in the Columbia boat, at the Crocker House in New London, after the race last July, voiced the opinion of the class by asserting that they had never desired Yale in the course and hoped Harvard, as she had the right to decline or accept challenges...
...think it fitting to speak of a matter which, although perhaps unexpressed, has been in the minds of many of us. We all feel it a great loss that at our daily morning services so little of the personality of the minister has a chance to express itself. We cannot gainsay the conviction that in the mere reading of the service, however beautiful it may be, to derive the full benefit of the noble soul and masterly mind of these men who so generously give up their time to live and work among us. Could there not be an informal...
...have revelations to give us of the will and ways of God. The actual life of men, the problems of the personal soul, the perplexities of social life; these, as well as the abstractions of the intellect, have proved their power to awaken doubt and to inspire faith. You cannot separate theology any longer by sharp lines from psychology and sociology. The open doors of the college chapel, into which no man is henceforth driven, out of which no man is excluded, in and out of which men pass spontaneously and freely, give a true symbol...