Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...active campaign for payment of Gymnasium pledges will close this week on Friday, and every man who signed a pledge last year, supposedly in good faith, will be expected to have it paid by that date. By that time there will be no further excuse for those men who were unable to pay last week, until the first of the month, and it can only be supposed that those men who have not paid, or arranged for payment by then, intend to withdraw their support, and deny their pledges. GYMNASIUM COMMITTEE...
...life. He must stand fast, work hard, learn his lessons even though they seem wearisome. In a word, football is like life and life is like football. It isn't easy sailing, and success in either is like the search for the four-leaf clover-a lesson in faith, hope, strength and hard work...
...Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others, who do not know that there is a Harvard spirit of less fame but no less power. Spirit counts, but who can say, "Here, is a true fighting spirit; there, is none?" In the end it is a question of faith, and we place ours in Harvard as Yale men place theirs in Yale...
...placing our faith, we hope, as the sportsman always does, that the better team will win. And when all is said and done, the better team probably will win, for failures and flukes are as much a measure of a team as splendid gains and wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that...
...stories are the least satisfactory part of the Advocate's contents. Mr. Larrabee's narrative of conversion and the mysterious ways of Providence is slow in starting and foggy in psychology. We have no faith in the hero's change of heart, for he is ever a creature of impulse and moves when and where his creator would have him. "Borrowing a Smile," by Mr. Clark, save that it is more firmly constructed than the other story, has little to recommend it. The moral is hackneyed, and the subject is just such a one as would suit a Munsey "storiette...