Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college lecture-rooms, that we are reluctant to rake up the subject. But occasionally, after one's brain has been dulled by the suffocating air of a close room or racked with fears of pneumonia and bronchitis, it is impossible to keep down a feeling of mingled indignation and despair. We know that it is no easy matter for the University authorities to remedy the evil; that improvements cost money; that the University is cramped for funds which may be applied to such purposes; and finally, that the best of ventilating appliances is apt to prove unsatisfactory. Nevertheless...
...this account we are convinced that staunch support is due the team,-a support which is not frightened by defeats; and it is with genuine pleasure that we not and shall note every good showing which the nine makes. And yet even the staunchest supporter must have come near despair after Saturday's game. The playing was undeniably wretched. Not only were the men weak at the bat and unsteady in the field, but, worst of all, they gave no indication by their head-work that they had ever played an intercollegiate game of ball before. The freshmen showed more...
...express our profound conviction that any action, to be satisfactory in the long run, must be cooperative. If either the students in power or the Corporation insist upon looking at the matter only from their own point of view, the whole question might as well be given up in despair. The Corporation have strength in their position; they can hardly be expected to erect a second hall, if, that done, the problem of a third hall will at once take the place of the old problem. The students have strength in their position. The Corporation would not be right...
These, however, are only the minor difficulties. The great mass of men find themselves sometimes in life and most likely during the college life, to be upset upon the main doctrine they have been taught to believe. They lose their child like faith, and despair of ever regaining it. Then is a dark interlude and yet that interlude ought to come to every man, it is essential to real belief. As the old philosophers put it, we have position, opposition and composition. We doubt the doctrine, we find its contradictions and then we unite all once more and the truth...
...self for we inherit many disorders. If we start with feeble bodies we can do much to make them strong. Of this we have a good example here, for not only have we seen improvement in athletes but also in the average physique. Let no man despair because he starts out with some physical error; it takes patience to overcome these faults, but with it it can be done...