Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second game Harvard has followed her previous policy and has yielded a bishop in addition to a knight. The position which she hopes to gain by this move is so aggressive that it warrants the sacrifice. The last moves are as follows...
...nature were little utilized, but when man gave himself to them, that is to their study, they returned his pains a hundred fold. So to the husbandman the earth gives just in proportion as he gives himself to its cultivation. From this we must learn that we cannot gain anything without giving ourselves to it. We cannot become fine scholars or musicians without devoting ourselves to our work. In religion it is especially true that as you give so you receive. When a man thinks little of religion and never troubles himself to see what there...
...they have full power. And yet the rest of the University cannot look on with indifference while they take such a course. Harvard's prospects in baseball have not been so gloomy for years as they are at present. Part of the responsibility for the reputation which Harvard shall gain in the coming year rests upon the freshmen. The nine is almost certain to contest with nines from other colleges, and it will probably meet Yale. The standing of the freshman nine in relation to the other class nines may be of little account, but its standing in relation...
...Africa, Asia and India there is a large field for this work. The love of gain urges the Arab to penetrate to the heart of Africa, and yet the love of God has not moved a man to go to these thousands who live in ignorance and tell them that they are free...
...society in the past has sent many emigrants from the southern states to Liberia, and there is at present such a wide-spread interest among the Negroes in colonization that the society is trying to gain friends who will aid in transporting those who wish to become citizens of the republic on the west coast of Africa...