Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last characteristic of true religion is progressiveness. Religion must keep pace with humanity, and humanity knows no standstill. The fault with your religion is that it dissociates itself from other pursuits. With us, science grew out of religion, but in your country you are engaged in a fight with science in which you must inevitably be driven into a corner. If you fight religion with science, both must perish. Let your religion be simple and natural, but let it always keep progressing with the rapid progress...
...Yale and University of Pennsylvania elevens will meet this afternoon in New York. Last year the score was 28 to 0 for Yale, but it is expected that Pennsylvania will make the fight considerably closer this year...
Half hearted support is almost as bad as no support at all and many a Harvard team has lost partly because it has had to fight a battle against Yale and part of Harvard. The students here have been altogether too prone to leave the gaining of victories entirely to the teams without feeling that they ought also to have a hand in the matter. Every one of us has heard time and time again of "Yale sand," "Yale pluck" and even "Yale luck"; yet what have these terms meant? Practically nothing but this, that the Yale supporters have...
...beaten by ninety-three. Two years ago ninety-five was beaten by ninety-four in the first game. Ninety-six was beaten last year in the first game with ninety-five, but this year promises to make a better showing. The game will certainly be a hard fight and will probably be close. The elevens will line up as follows...
...undergraduates of the college; and the Phormio of Terence has been selected because it approaches nearer than others to the modern play in the plot and its development. The date for the presentation has been practically settled as the nineteenth of April, the anniversary of the Concord Fight; for the Latin plays, in the days of their popularity, were reserved for festival occasions; and it is the aim of the Latin department to make as exact a reproduction of the original as possible. With this in view, the twenty-second of February had been selected; but it was found that...