Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thoughts with the team, he gave ex-Captain Cumnock's definition of team play, as consisting in every man's knowing how to play his position so well that he can spare some of his surplus strength to aid the man next him. The more each player can help the man next him, the stronger the team play...
...Honor," by Austin Corbin, Jr., is a decidedly clever essay, though one cannot help feeling that the cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...
...does not help the man who intends to enter a profession to begin his college course at the age of seventeen, for it has frequently been proved that the man who begins to practice his profession at twenty-three gains no advantage over the man who begins active work at twenty-six. The world shuns the very young practitioner, and turns to the older man, even though he has no greater experience or skill. The young man does not find the positions open to him today that the young man of twenty years ago did. The places are now being...
...eighty-three times by the annual excess among non-christians of births over deaths: Canon Taylor, The Great Missionary Failure, Fortnightly Review, Vol. L (October, 1888).- (c) Most conversions are but temporary-(x) Either they lapse upon departure of the missionary to some other station-(y) Or they help to swell the reports of some more lavish missionary society,- (d) The loss of Christian lives is not repaid by the doubtful gain of heathen souls.- (x) The wives and children of the missionaries rarely survive the deadly climates, plagues and famines...
...hoped that all college riders will make a special effort to attend the meeting for it will help the formation of an intercollegiate cycling association which would take bicycle racing in the colleges out of the track events and place it on an independent footing, where it belongs...