Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Under the old system dinner was served at noon, even on the days when games were played in the afternoon. At night there was a light tea, consisting of cold meats, toast and some kind of preserve. Dr. Conant at once changed the heavy meal of the day from noon to the evening and for the tea substituted a good, substantial lunch. Formerly the diet of the players was made up largely of meat. No vegetables were allowed and few starches, as these were supposed to be bad for the athlete's wind. The meats were then cooked very rare...
...past few days of cold weather bring to mind the need of a place for skating during the winter. The ponds about Cambridge are free from snow during only a small part of the cold season, and even then they are so inaccessible that comparatively few men can afford to spend the time necessary to go to them. If on the other hand, a place were provided near by, and the lce kept in condition for skating the greater part of the winter, it is probable that as many students would engage in this form of exercise as take part...
...second essential is morality: for though there may be morality without religion, there can not be religion without morality. With shame I admit that we in the East are guilty of great offense against this virtue; and were you equally honest, you would have to confess that even your ministers are often sadly immoral. It is easy to say that because of it this or that religion is wrong, and to protest against that of which we do not approve; but until we have proved ourselves to be above it, to have outgrown such popular failings, our protest...
...tell me if students are supposed to get any benefit from Appleton Chapel on Sunday evenings? I was one of a large number of students who last evening were unable to hear the eminent preacher from India. We arrived shortly after seven o'clock. Instead of obtaining entrance by the south door, as students are especially directed in the official college calendar, the crowd of outsiders prevented our getting even to the chapel steps. Perhaps the ushers could not prevent. Cambridge people from crowding into the reserved seats. If so, the rude outsiders should be excluded altogether. Part...
...Eliot said that it seems to him there is only one ground for religious union. Through all religious matters there will be found a commonness of conception of human character. There is a tendency among preachers to leave off doctrinal preaching and to preach the following of Jesus, and even those persons who have no religious belief have a standard of living, which ideal cannot be divided from the idea of following Christ...