Word: fears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Word comes from New Haven that the coaches fear that Pumpelly, who is at present on the injured list, may develop water on the knee...
...make it possible for the loafers to get through, because no short review could do that. They simply clear up many hazy points and give the men a view of their courses as a whole which they are frequently unable to get unassisted. As for omitting reviews for fear of such things as happened in Governmentment I at mid-years, we do not believe that any Harvard man would dare repeat such an act of misrepresentation in the public journals. There is everything to be said in favor of reviews, while what is said against them seems...
Under the present system the Senior or graduate who lives for from Cambridge does not dare to apply for two tickets for fear of getting left altogether. It would be justice, not injustice to give preference to (1) Seniors. (2) graduates who are back for their 25th inniversary, and (3) graduates back for their decennial reunion. To give men preference on the three great times when their class tries to be present as a whole is surely as rational as to give preference to the uppr classes over the lower as is done at the Yale football game. The Athletic...
...fear that President Eliot has based his remarks about the religion of India, at any rate, upon the garbled reports of a few superficial observers. We know the good as well as the bad points in our country's intellectual development and can assert with confidence that most of the problems which Christianity likes to regard as her exclusive privileges have been long mooted and debated in India...
...spite of the impression of largeness and dignity given by many of the lines, it can hardly be called completely articulate. Frank Dazey's "Sonnet" is the best piece of verse in the number. As for the "Song" by Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, it is written in what, I fear, the author supposed to be Scots dialect. It is about a little boy who heard a robin sing, and apparently died. In any case, when the robin came back from the south, it came alone. British robins, it is true, do not go south in winter; and in general...