Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...twenty years steady progress has been made, and now a large part of the public offices are out of politics and can be obtained only by a test of fitness. President Cleveland is now doing all he can to stop this evil, and the country ought to make him feel that he has their entire approbation...
...both Pharisees and multitude. He was so perfect that we are afraid of Him. When we think of His calm, sweet life, and His fearlessness of death, we regard him with a kind of superstitious veneration. When we think of the mysterious greatness of His character we feel infinitely small and insignificant...
...Gradually the storm of accusation caused by the Pharisees, rose against Him, and the people drew back. A few days later they hated Him and cried to the governor for His crucifixion. We despise the fickleness of the miserable rabble, and yet cannot help but feel that we ourselves posses some of its weakness. We cannot be strong in our faith unless we ask ourselves what we really think of Christ, and hold a steadfast faith in His love and forgiveness without trying to understand the mystery which surrounds...
Heartiest wishes for success will accompany the members of the freshman football team as they leave for Philadelphia this afternoon. That they will be subjected to the fatigue of travelling within so short a time of the game is a disadvantage which they must necessarily feel, but neither that nor the lack of any considerable number of Harvard men to cheer them on, should prevent them from putting up a plucky, sportsmanlike game; and that, after all, is the most in dispensable requisite for a victory...
...evident to every one, that there is one tangible way of showing interest in the team, and of stirring up this atmosphere, and that is by every man's going down to Soldiers Field to watch the practice. Nothing can be more disheartening to any college team than to feel that it has been left alone to go through the hard routine of daily practice simply to provide a spectacular performance once in a while for the amusement of an unsympathetic crowd. Yet that is the light in which the football team's work must inevitably appear, if no more...