Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...line will soon be in its final shape with Boal able to play. He will take part in this afternoon's game for the first time since he was injured in the Amherst game three weeks ago. Coach Waters is making particular efforts to bring Lawrence up to a higher standard of play. He shows little improvement in defensive work, but as he is capable of good football, the hard coaching he is receiving should make him a strong point in the line...
...attack on athletics before the Mass. Schoolmasters' Club last Saturday, Professor A. B. Hart spoke informally on behalf of athletics. He characterized college and school sports as a great force making for righteousness and said that training was a moral safeguard. Harvard's intellectual and moral standard's are higher today than they were twenty years ago which would not be true were athletics injurious. Athletic sport makes the student stand forth...
...first eleven scored two touchdowns. By two thirty-yard runs, Gierasch scored two touchdowns in the first half. In the second, Kendall made the touchdowns. Except for a couple of criss-crosses, the first eleven played straight football throughout. Reid again punted well, and by kicking the ball higher, gave the ends more time to get down the field...
...manifestation. Religion is rather the "pressing forward toward the mark of our high calling in Christ Jesus our Lord." It is this intention, graven on the heart, that changes a man's life. It is a mistake to call any weak man well-meaning, since, in the higher and broader sense, if a man means well he will do well. A man interested in athletics shows it in his bearing and conversation. Similarly, if Christ is the centre of a man's thought he naturally grows into a life of righteousness and self-sacrifice, and shows it in his outward...
...sometimes tempted to think of religion as a negative force in life. Its real value, however, is in raising us to a plane above low temptation, and in leading us on to higher and nobler actions. The attitude of indifference towards the conduct of others, so long as we ourselves are not affected, inflicts indescribable harm, which cure can only be remedied by men of courage daring to stand up for justice and truth...