Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exeter G. Harding and Cranston played a remarkably good game. McClung caught punts well and the whole team tackled low, which cannot be said of the Harvard team. The team has been coached by Mr. Dudley, Harvard '87 and they have done well under his instruction...
...confine him in his room for a day or so with a bad cold or a sore throat. Prof. Childs was compelled to stay in his house two days last week as a direct result of his zeal in trying to find some books in the library. All this cannot be laid to the riegligence of the employees of that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there is no justification for the college authorities to pass over a matter of so great an importance, and one which has been brought...
...BALDWIN.Dr. Sargent cannot examine the football men this morning. All who play against Technology must be examined before the end of the week...
...right way it needs no argument. Men would accept it at once without urging. He wished to speak of two subjects briefly. First, the intellectual difficulty which men meet with in religion. This difficulty must be settled first. Our minds must be satisfied. Man is a born questioner, he cannot help doubting. And the whole world is a Sphinx, full of my story. If it were not so, there would be nothing for man to use his intellect upon. Also the instruments by which we study are impaired by nature, and by prejudice. The lenses with which a man sees...
...singular that we cannot prove religious facts. No great religious truths have been proved to the satisfaction of the average man. A man before he enters college is not awake to the intellectual side of life. During his college course he usually looks mainly at the intellectual side. So a man in college naturally doubts. But there are other things in life than reason. Theology and religion are very different. Theology solves the problems, but religion is for one's life, whether a man live well or ill. Then give up the insolvable problems, no one can solve them...