Word: high
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Granted, however, that such men are not representative, but rather the results of an over-ripe culture, there are many men of education, true, high-minded and of Christian ideals, who believe that Christ and His church are at the basis of our civilization, who sympathize with Christian truth, who feel that ideally the church is the stronghold of the highest types of character, but who do not practically turn hand, voice or life to the sustaining of the Christian church of today...
...church needs, even if the criticism be only partially true, is the loyalty and devotion of men of culture - men who, by refinement, will keep the church from Philistianism, by openness of mind will save her from narrowness, and by singleness of purpose will keep her true to her high aims...
Andover and Hillhouse High School have contributed the largest number of men to the class, the former having nineteen representatives and the latter sixteen. Twenty schools have sent two or more men and five colleges are represented...
...obstacles in the way of the proposed athletic league, so Harvard may take pleasure in having already secured so worthy a new rival. Cornell's athletic reputation has been chiefly won through her crew, but in football and baseball as well, she has of late years begun to take high rank. There is every reason to expect a series of interesting contests as the result of the present negotiations. Cornell will be very welcome among Harvard's competitors...
...very weak, as the score shows. He made seven errors. Porter caught well, but his hitting was rather weak. Thomas ,at first, was handicapped by having a lame leg which prevented him from doing as well as he did in the other games. Merriman, by misjudging Breed's high fly made himself responsible for four of the Trilbys' runs...