Word: cannot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meeting of the Andover men in the University is announced for this evening. The yearly delegation from Andover to Harvard has increased steadily during the past few years, and while it perhaps cannot be called so much a Harvard as a Yale fitting school, still, there is a growing tendency in favor of Harvard. It is to keep up this tendency, and, if possible, to increase it, that the meeting is called tonight...
...creed upheld and championed. The ministers of the University preach Christ, not theology. There is an agreement in condemnation of all cant and austerity; all exaggeration, undue emotionality and misrepresentation of feeling. The attitude towards religion is one of common sense and concession; and an attitude so respectful cannot but inspire reverence in those who understand...
...reliefs on the shield of the great statue are reproduced after a fashion; the statuette as a whole, however, is a very clumsy piece of workmanship, and much inferior to the one first discovered. But even from the meager accounts we have of the statue of Athena Parthenos, we cannot but conclude that it was a magnificent and imposing work...
...surely known whether or not Andover and Exeter will enter into the scheme, but there is every reason to suppose that they will readily consent to form a part of the association. The Andover and Exeter men in college are enthusiastic over the plan, for it cannot but prove of great benefit both to Andover and to Exeter. The incentive given to both schools to put forth every effort in order to win the annual game, and thus be one of the contestants in the final struggle for the cup, will be great. The Boston schools will also have much...
...Harvard undergraduates, prompted by a desire to increase the competition in baseball between the preparatory schools, have offered a cup which is to be played for by the winner of the Exeter-Andover game and a nine picked from the schools around Boston. The action of the Harvard men cannot be commended too highly. A majority of the graduates of the schools likely to be in the interscholastic baseball association enter Harvard, and the result of the increased competition between these schools will surely bear in a strong and direct light upon the success of Harvard's baseball interests...