Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unusual advantages in education, to preach the word of God to a heathen world, and to show by noble lives of self-sacrifice the power and beauty of the Christian faith. The needs of foreign fields are so much greater than those of the home fields that they cannot be spoken of in the same breath. In Christian countries every one has heard the name of God, every one knows what a church is and the opportunities for hearing the word of God preached are very many. In foreign countries where the gospel has never been preached there are millions...
After this analysis, we cannot see that the press club can be expected to raise the estimation of college papers except by making a rather loose union between the college editors and by whatever prestige the name, in itself, might give. Now we believe that such things will not raise papers in general estimation. If papers are to win esteem, they must do so by making themselves more useful to the college world. Any scheme for accomplishing the object by simply banding together rests the thing on an unsound supposition...
...expenses therewith connected, seems to be founded on a misapprehension. The purpose of, what you call "the machinery of the course," is not to increase but to diminish the expenditure of the students. It is a course requiring the use of many books, and students who cannot afford to provide themselves with a small library on the subject would find themselves handicapped. A pamphlet has, therefore, been prepared which contains, besides matter intended to be helpful for the special work of the course, a set of classified readings referring to several distinct groups of books. By the use of this...
...appeared as contestants in the bicycle race at the freshman games, - a very poor showing considering the size of the class. At a time when half the people in the country have gone bicycle crazy it is hard to see why a cycling association cannot exist and flourish here at the University. The runs which the association intends to hold this fall are designed not so much for racing purposes as for the pleasure they may give to the men who take part. Incidentally of course it is hoped to develop some good material for the tack...
...remark accidentally overheard on the street a few days ago seems to us so interesting in the state of feeling that it revealed that we cannot but dwell on it for a moment. Two upper classmen were talking glumly of the outlook for their class eleven. "Why doesn't Blank come out?" said one. "He would brace that team wonderfully...