Word: fears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Although Yale expected defeat at the hands of most of her minor college rivals last fall, no fear was felt that Carnegie. Tech will humiliate the team here tomorrow. On the basis of scoring shown by the Eli team the past week, it should score three times tomorrow. The Yak rush line has not yet shown steadiness enough to predict a Carnegie Tech white washing...
...theme; and within his single page he wastes several sentences in making comments that disclose, for the writer of a story that deals with boys, an elderly type of mind. A delicate problem of conflicting views of honor and duty is set forth in Mr. Carpenter's "The Greater Fear." The hero is forced by his fiancee to decide between apparent cowardice and, the author implies, certain brutality. Might there not have been a third way out, the reader is tempted to ask? Mr. Moyse discusses "the Episode Play" with greater sympathy than it usually finds at the hands...
Many articles have appeared during the past year revealing the shocking ignorance of college men concerning the progress of the great war. A recent issue of the Independent Magazine makes this statement: "We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it." Between the conflicting fires of an English official communication, a Berlin official report, and a French communique, it takes more than an intelligent person to read the news of a single engagement and understand which forces gained the advantage. After a series of attempts to untangle the contradictory statements...
...indicating that our college students do not read the war news, and they have been scolded in many a chapel talk and editorial for neglect of the papers. To us, the results of this quiz seem to show that they are guilty of something far less excusable. We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it. Such diligence and complete absorption in the required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would indeed be unwise, but not discouraging. But to think that students...
...Henry VIII of England at the time when that jovial monarch is enjoying the company of his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. At the court is Godred, a Celtic knight, detained in the palace as a prisoner of war. Godred is a heroic figure; a typical "man who knows no fear...