Word: constant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...foot ball that has ever been seen, and even in the hour of defeat we can sincerely congratulate our New Haven rivals for the good they have done the game. They have demonstrated more clearly than it has ever been demonstrated before that foot ball is susceptible of constant development not merely on that side which is purely mechanical but upon the side in which the head is the important factor...
...opened his eyes to the infinite System, but for one who takes it as a matter of course. In sum, a true lover of nature becomes in some degree a lover of God. If he wearies of dry doctrines and explanations and feels that he can ascribe the constant display of intelligence at work, net only in sky and stars, but in his own heart, only to a divine Intelligence, he has won from his love of nature what it was intended that he should, a love of God as the Creator and Guide of all life. It he also...
...best accomplish having your religion honored in the entire circle of your acquaintance? not by ostentatious professions. Make your quiet yet efficient profession by constant attendance on christian worship and ordinances and by taking your modest port in such associations for religious improvement as have your confidence and sympathy. Follow the leading of your own enlightened conscience by letting no cumulative force of example or persuasio turn you one hair's breadth from what you regard as your duty; by making your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven...
With the growth of Harvard the gaps in the curriculum which the university should offer if it is properly to fulfill its functions have become more and more conspicuous. A constant demand on the part of many students for a course in astronomy the college has hitherto failed to meet, alleging lack of funds. Since 1878 the faculty have offered no course in astronomy whatever. This year, however, a determined effort will be made to do away with this deficiency. Mr. Wilson, who has for four or five years been engaged in special research in electricity at the Jefferson Physical...
...little moonbeams" are permitted to creep into the room and they form the medium through which the story is told. The style of the sketch is that of one of Anderson's fairy stories with a lack of the latter's delicacy of expression, one noticeable defect being the constant repetition of the expression "little moonbeams...