Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This fall both Harvard and Yale announced at the beginning of the season that the work of the elevens would be comparatively light. Up to this time the practice on Soldiers Field has been so. Before the game last Saturday the coaches naturally felt some doubt about the ability of the men to last through the second half. But as was evident to all who were on the grounds, the Harvard men were much more able than their opponents to stand the test of hard playing. For one week more, then, it was determined that the system of light work...
...ourselves; above all, it enlarges aethetic charity. It has seemed to me also that a foreign language, quite as much as a dead one, has the advantage of putting whatever is written in it at just such a distance as is needed for a proper mental perspective. No doubt this strangeness, this novelty, adds much to the pleaure we feel in reading the literature of other languages than our own. It plays the part of poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained another sense...
...some hereditary germ of aptitude, a sense of proportion and of the helpful relation of parts to the whole organism which other races mostly grope after in vain. Spenser, in the enthusiasm of his new Platonism, tells us that "Soul is form,and doth the body make," and no doubt this is true of the highest artistic genius. Form without soul, the most obsequious observance of the unities, the most perfect a priori adjustment of parts, is a lifeless
life. A certain student is denounced for having stolen the sign of the athletic manager. Because this gentleman is a member of the University it was decidedly wrong to steal his sign; if he had been some poor barber there might yet have been some doubt as to whether the theft was justifiable or not. Are we not laying ourselves open to the charge of upholding as a principle of our university life one which is worthy only of a band of thieves: "From any outsider steal all that thou canst-but woe unto thee if thou stealest aught from...
...appointment of committees, he has made it his constant aim to have all opinions justly represented, and to secure the consideration of every important question from all reasonable points of view. He has endured, without flinching, the most wearisome prolongations of debate. He has never left a doubt in any mind of his absolute devotion to the good of the University, of his high sense of public duty as the administrator of a great trust, or of his unstinted use of every power at his command to discharge that duty efficiently...