Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...energetic manifestation of interest in the teams, similar perhaps to the mildly manifested eagerness displayed in intellectual pursuits which is causing most of the trouble. Just what would become of the athletes who were able to survive the ordeal of such a training season, the writer does not dwell on. Perhaps he sees in that phase of the situation the surest remedy of all-when men won't want to be members of the teams--with the result that soon the teams will become discouraged through lack of material and the men will peacefully lay down their burdens and lend...
After a thorough investigation the CRIMSON has found that the position of the Faculty is based upon no specific injuries to scholarship by intercollegiate athletics, but upon the general feeling ("vague generalities" being objected to) that the undergraduate mind is too pre-occupied, too prone to dwell upon punts, hurdles, and three-base hits, instead of upon problems of social ethics...
...took its stand against abolition of winter sports and stated the reasons that have been repeated so often throughout the long one-sided discussion. The unfair discrimination that would follow the passing of this pending vote is further dealt with in communications this morning, and it is useless to dwell longer on that phase of the question...
...lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely as are the inhabitants of Eastern Maine. Their interests are circumscribed by the hills on one side and the ocean on the other. Yet it seems but natural that the stranger--a smuggler he happened to be--who comes to dwell with them should find himself at home in their tiny circle, and that one who had never been beyond the hills and to whom the world beyond the horizon was mystery, should long to be out and away. Miss Wilkins would probably have allowed the girl to be a sufficient excuse...
...first lecture Professor Zueblin, dwell on the importance of individuality in a man's religion. In the second and third lectures he spoke of the broad realm of orthodoxy and of the modern decay of authority, and at the next lecture he took up the responsibility of the church in its effects on the happiness of a perfect moral society. Last Monday Professor Zueblin said that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character and that the best way of securing the wholeness of life is to satisfy these six great wants of human society: wealth, health...