Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...generally safe to trust to the religion of the heart, for a healthy instinct is better than a diseased reason...
...desired, but when it comes to crowding on the base lines and rattling the players it is overstepping the bounds of fairness. A game won and lost on its merits must be pleasanter to both sides, to say nothing of its being the only sort that men of gentlemanly instinct care...
...These last five, moreover, seem to be of especial interest. Tonight Professor Goodwin, in having for his subject "Paul at Athens," will bring the thought of Greece into touch with the Christian gospel. Professor Palmer will apply the habit of philosophy to interpret the parables, and Professor Wright the instinct of the philologist to the speeches of Paul. It is difficult to see how our instructors could better accomplish true University work than by such means as these...
...most successful engagements played in Boston this year. In "Beau Brummel" Mr. Mansfield presents another of his wonderfully effective and subtle character studies. His acting of the part of the famous beau is always artistic and always thoroughly enjoyable. He is a real artist by instinct; he never caricatures a part; he draws his lines firmly and sharply, but at the same time with a wonderful delicacy and appreciation. Those who enjoy a thoroughly artistic and satisfactory piece of work should not fail to see Mr. Mansfield this week. At the Wednesday matinee there will be a special performance...
...were some pretty exhibitions of blocking in Saturday's game, but the men do not seem to have acquired the knack of habitually blocking. It is early in the season, of course, to expect this; but Yale teams have a way of blocking and tackling as though it were instinct with them to do so, and we should all like to see something of the same quality in the work of Harvard players...