Word: getting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider...
...that the non-athletic men don't know about such things and had better use their power of speech on a subject with which they are more conversant. This is, we are convinced, a wrong view. A little more interference by the college might do something to get athletic matters out of the ruts which have held them so long. It might be well to note that no rowing men have been near the boathouse this fall...
...advantages which Yale and Princeton have over Harvard in foot-ball matters, lies the fact that at those colleges the candidates for position on the eleven get to work two weeks before we are able to do so here. The foot-ball season is a short one and the only way to counteract this handicap is for everyone trying for a position on the team to put his whole heart and soul into the game and work to bring his college out first in the contest. A scant four weeks is all the time that remains before the first championship...
...important courses, and the disagreeable delays of former years have thus been obviated. The prices are uniformly lower than those at the other dealers in Cambridge and the objects sold are of the very best quality. The selection of books is especially satisfactory as a man now gets a better chance to inspect new publications than was ever afforded before in Cambridge. We are nearly as well off now in this regard as are the students in the German university who get an opportunity to see practically every important publication that appears. Every one that cares for true economy will...
...opposing elevens. Harry Beecher is doing his old-time work as quarter-back. He is as quick as a cat and as strong as a moose. He is the captain of the team, and as such is well liked by all the men, from whom he bids fair to get the best work of which they are capable...