Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...moment. But the Athletic Association was organized to further sport, not as a business enterprise. We can better afford to discharge our debt and make the improvements a little more slowly than to injure any of our sports now by a too rigid economy; and there can be no doubt that the sudden withdrawal of support from the teams in question will injure if not entirely cripple them...
With Clarkson in the box this afternoon, there should be no doubt as to the outcome of the game, although it should be close unless the batting of the Harvard team is a decided improvement over that shown in the Bowdoin game...
There is no doubt in my mind about the benents of cheering to an athletic team, no matter in what branch or sport it may be. There always come times in college competition of all sorts when a team or an individual does more than it was believed possible; and, although this may be said to have been due to any number of causes, the real one was that the individual or the members of the team had, for perhaps but an instant, had one ear open to the grandstand and had received the outside encouragement...
...past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when doubt is diversified by faith...
...small part of the rays; those which give the shades of color, while the rays which come before and after the spectrum are invisible. Thus it is with life--the unknown past, the illuminated present, and the unseen future of human existence should not make us doubt the reality of what we cannot see. Out eyes and ears are finite, and receive no impressions of infinite things. They dupe us, and make us blind and deaf to things of the spirit...