Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to draw attention to the fact that the rowing statements as published today appear through the Associated Press. Captain Goodrich is unable to confirm the article, as he has not as yet received any official reply to Harvard's challenge of December...
Yale Willing to Accept.NEW HAVEN, CONN., June 6. - Lewis P. Sheldon, the newly-elected captain of the Yale Track Athletic Team, was asked this afternoon to confirm the statement that Yale and Harvard would be invited to meet Cambridge and Oxford Universities here in September. He said: "I have no knowledge of the matter except through the newspapers. The invitation of the English universities has not been received here. Yale will be delighted to accept the invitation, in case satisfactory arrangements can be made. I do not know whether Harvard will be willing to join Yale in the meet...
...arbitrary reward, nor Hell a place of arbitrary punishment. They were self-determined conditions of the soul of man. He extended the realm of nature into the unseen universe. The Divine Comedy was not intended merely to alarm the sinner by the picture of Hell's horrors, nor to confirm the good by the picture of Heaven's delights. It was intended simply to instruct, to warn, and to guide man. Brevity of utterance, concise expression and directness are the characteristics of the style of the poem. The Divine Comedy is priceless, not only as a work of marvellous beauty...
...sleeping, and those of life and death. In both sleep and death, something seems to go out from the person, the difference being that in death the something that goes out does not return. Furthermore, when the sleeper dreams of the dead, the explanations of dreams and death confirm each other. As to the nature of that which seems to go out, there are several groups of ideas based on two phenomena, the breath and the shadow...
...Saturday evening it was announced that the Athletic Committee, seeing no reason for departing from the rule of having only undergraduates to be captains of the 'varsity athletic teams, had refused to confirm the re-election of B. G. Waters '94, as captain of the football eleven...