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Word: dumbness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...service at Appleton Chapel last night. He took as his text Mark ix: 23, "If thoucanst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth," and spoke on the nature of belief. He pointed out that the attitude toward Christ of the father of the child which had the dumb spirit is exactly our own. It is to Christ that the world turns for the solution of its troubles, and yet that solution has not come. It is because there is the same lack of complete faith which there was in the father when Christ addressed to him the words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 4/13/1891 | See Source »

...spring recess. The batteries practice fifteen minutes apiece in the gymnasium cage. The regular candidates begin at four o'clock and practice picking up grounders and throwing and sliding bases. After this they go for a fast run for about a quarter of a mile and then exercise with dumb bells. Most of the pitchers are experienced men, having played on their school teams, Minton at the English High, Lanfield at the Cambridge High, Highland at the Fall River High School, Hoag at the Roxbury Latin, and Carr at the Gorden City School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Baseball. | 3/6/1891 | See Source »

...Varsity Football Squad, numbering forty or fifty men, exercises daily in the gymnasium. The work at present consists of short, quick dumb bell exercises and a run up North Avenue. Until the snow goes nothing can be done outside, but when the Norton fields are fairly dry the whole body will be divided into squads and will be coached in line and half back work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Varsity Football Squad. | 3/6/1891 | See Source »

...have shown most interest and ability in their work. The advanced section will meet in the evenings and be instructed by the players of last year's eleven in the theory of of the game. For the present the whole squad will work together; at dumb-bells and running till the weather is more open, and then on the field. The men will be coached by graduates and last year's players as soon as they get on the field. The men whose names were given in last night are as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foot Ball Squad. | 2/26/1891 | See Source »

...work is very light, and will not occupy more than three-quarters of an hour each day. The candidates began yesterday with practice on ground balls, starting and sliding to bases in the Carey building. This was followed by a short run on North Avenue, and by the ordinary dumb-bell exercises at the Gymnasium. Among the men at work yesterday there were six or eight Ninety-four men. Trafford, Frothingham, Alward, Soule and Captain Dean represented the old players. The men will continue to meet at four o'clock each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Training for the Nine. | 2/11/1891 | See Source »

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