Word: fearful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Those reactionaries who fear to see any least change made should be reconciled when the changes are in such good hands. The game in its present form is the result of a series of developments extending over many years, and there is no reason to fear that football with not still be football when the changes are effected intelligently and in the true reform spirit...
...publication of the black-list is a threat which has been often made, but it is beginning to lose force by repetition. Men do not greatly fear the risk of getting their names on the black-list as long as they are merely deprived of the right to apply for tickets in the future. It is too easy in such cases to procure tickets for personal use through some player or other friend. But if this list were made public each year it is not hard to believe that speculation would stop entirely and at once...
...last of the aspects under which I proposed to consider the college is that of the relation of undergraduates to one another; and first on the intellectual side. We have heard much of the benefit obtained merely by breathing the college atmosphere, or rubbing against the college walls. I fear the walls about us have little of the virtue of Aladdin's lamp
...smoker was a most enjoyable evening, filled with infinite jest; yet I fear Judge Grant in his preamble hit it off very well--"Why not trot the poor old scholar out?" There was a certain sign of patronage for the scholar on the part of the man of the world, in which the poet joined. I should have been glad if the dignity of scholarship had been a bit more emphasized...
...question of the immortality of man is a great one and has never been solved. There are three different and incompatible aspects of the question. First there are those people who do not think about immortality, then those who fear it, and finally those who desire it. The majority of people are of the first class; they accept death as inevitable and seldom or never think about a future life, not even on their death-beds. There are some people who have simply had enough of life and desire only to rest in oblivion, and others who desire extinction because...