Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interviews between Sir Gawain and the lady are managed with great delicacy, yet with no distinct reticence. Few things, too, could have been more difficult than to conduct Sir Gawain through these adventures without making him appear ridiculous. He is pictured as modest, brave, courteous and steadfast in faith. Even King Arthur is not the shadowy phantom we usually meet with, but real flesh and blood. The descriptions of the hunts are unsurpassed in English poetry and lend color and reality to the plot. Not the least remarkable characteristic of this poem is its elevated morality, a great contrast...
Years before Dudley came to Harvard College there were in New England a number of French Huguenots driven into exile by the edict of Nantes. The story of their sufferings on account of their faith awakened the sympathy of the New Englanders. The Indian massacres, which wrought such havoc on the quiet New England settlements, were believed to be instigated by the Jesuit priests in Canada. These facts account for Judge Dudley's bitterness toward the Catholics...
...always been the ideal of truth and honesty. As a matter of fact the reverse is the case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with Protestants. Whether the Catholic Church will ever abandon its absurd claims to infallibility, it will always be the duty of its members to do their duty before...
...consider a challenge unless the Harvard team would formally disavow certain statements made by a Harvard coach,- a thing which they could not truthfully do. Harvard then made the only possible answer to this demand, and assuming that Yale's position, whether reasonable or unreasonable, was taken in good faith, supposed that there was an end for the present of all athletic relations between the two universities. For it was impossible to see, considering that every intercollegiate sport at Harvard is under the supervision of one committee, how any further negotiations could be carried regarding any intercollegiate sport...
...Harvard took Yale's letter in good faith, and answered in the same spirit, the result was that the athletic relations between the two universities lapsed. Obviously they could only be restored by the party that broke them off. Here comes the whole question at issue. Which college really took the initiative, the one that made a demand which public opinion has adjudged it impossible to comply with without loss of self-respect, or the one that merely states its inability to accede to this demand? "Call black, white," says Yale, "or we shall not play." "We cannot," says Harvard...