Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times offers a prize of a year's subscription to any one who will satisfactorily explain the resolutions adopted at the Inter-Collegiate Foot-ball Convention...
...just here on the part of Princeton laymen we would ask Dr. Holmes, when he is in good humor at his breakfast table, to explain to us how he can expect a dry creed ever to learn anything. A creed is a belief. How can a belief learn to be anything but a belief? As for Harvard being able to burn up the old beliefs, we doubt it. The truth is she is attempting to do so, and, unfortunately, giving us nothing in their place. - Mobile Register...
...university and for the life and ideals which are the outcome of such elevating systems, are so strong that we are powerless to express our contempt for the mistaken ideas of Mr. Peck. Of the two suppositions in regard to Prof. Peck which we must make in order to explain his article, - either ignorance of his subject or lack of perception of moral worth, - we are by charity forced to adopt the former...
...columns of Saturday's Record that it was through a mistake of Dr. Sargent that Harvard was forced to withdraw from the Oelrich's cup. I had already shut off a wildly improbable account which was on its way to the N. Y. World, and tried to explain the matter to the Record reporter so that no misrepresentation of the Doctor should get into the Boston press. The facts of the case are these. 1. That Dr. Sargent was only following instructions in recalling us. 2. That we had but an infinitesimal chance of winning the cup with a crippled...
...terrific fielding of their opponents. Towards the close of the game the Bessies released some of their regular players and availed themselves of professional talent, - but in vain. The following summary will give some idea of the work done. Several threatening letters received at this office will serve to explain the omission of the individual scores...