Word: gained
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...part in the history of the world. The sultan enjoys a semblance of power on the coast; but in the mountainous interior is not even recognized. This absence of a strong central government has often caused international trouble. To establish it, Spain, England and France have each tried to gain a foothold in Morocco, but all attempts to do so have failed...
...game for the intercollegiate championship at 8.15 o'clock this evening at the St. Nicholas Rink, New York. Both teams have won all their games this season and the game this evening promises to be the fastest and most closely contested of the intercollegiate schedule. If victorious, Harvard will gain permanent possession of the Stoddard and Ceballos cups, which, to be permanently secured, must be won three years. Yale won them in 1902, and Harvard has held them the past two years...
...putting aside our own personal welfare or gain, we see before us the great national questions and the great humanitarian questions. The number-less social problems of wages, health, disease, charities, divisions of profits, are pressing on us and can be answered only by reason, guided by knowledge and high character, and to the University men especially falls this interesting task...
...giving all essential information in a condensed form, can be ordered from the Macmillan Company, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York. "Oxford and its Colleges," written by Mr. J. Wells, of Wadham College, and "Oxford and Oxford Life," edited by Mr. Wells, may be recommended for those who wish to gain fuller information about the University and its colleges...
...humanity in singling out the units. This process should begin with the surrender of one's self to God. Second we should think--the need today is for a generation of thinking Christians--in order that we may not hold the old, worn out, abandoned conceptions, but may gain a rational and vigorous Christianity. In the third place we should reach out to humanity. The unit that thinks must embrace the race. No man has a right to live for himself. Fourth, unselfish living must be applied to our neighbors in need and to the institutions and worthy causes about...