Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...careful of his inheritance he will lose it. If his profession or business leaves him no time for spiritual development he grows weak and perhaps falls before temptations that would have been powerless, had he kept the health and strength that were his birthright. A man will gain the power to pass unharmed through temptation if he will put himself in communion with great men and deeds. And above all he must live in the presence of Christ and let Him have his life. Men are not slow to recognize the difference between hearing about the Christian life from...
...Princeton and Columbia for the purchase of a suitable challenge trophy, is interfering as showing a possible tendency wards contests among the colleges in intellectual athletics, so to speak. The ? debates between Harvard and Yale ? winter illustrate the same tendency. ? interesting speculation may arise whether such contests would ever gain the pro+++ nence and importance in the undergraduate mind that the physical exhibitions now hold. It is hardly probable that they will ever be so popular with the public, but it is entirely conceivable that among college men themselves the rivalry in these competitions might become as keen and absorbing...
...conference which was to have been held at New York Saturday, of the captains of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton nines was postponed. In order that the college may not gain an erroneous impression from the statement made in the public press, the committee, which has in charge the matters of a renewal of athletic contests with Princeton, wish to state that Harvard has made no proposition to Princeton such as the public press have stated, namely that Harvard should play Princeton in foot ball every year on Thanksgiving Day; and that Harvard proposed base ball dates without...
Captain Frothingham is at present in New York but will return tomorrow. In his absence, B. W. Trafford '93 is acting as captain. "Tim" Keefe, who pitched for Philadelphia last year, is coaching the pitchers, who doubtless will gain many valuable points under his instruction. The following batteries practiced in the cage yesterday afternoon. J. A. Highlands, L. S. S. and F. C. Cobb, D. S.; P. L. Spalding '92 and H. Cabot '94; J. Wiggin '93 and J. Corbett '94; A. A. Highlands '94 and H. M. Clarke...
...years, and that the winner in any department could be the champion of the English speaking Race, and that all the contests could be held in a comparatively short space of time, would it not give them much greater prominence and inspire the people with a stronger desire to gain a prize for their country or their colony...