Word: lest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...left in the College must put a good team on the field; not simply a winning team, but a clean team, a hard-fighting team, and gentlemen. That is in justification to ourselves, lest men say that the best have gone, and that there are none brave enough to fill the place they left vacant...
...commencing at 2 o'clock. The order is as follows: Today. 9.15 A. M. Anthropology 10, Peabody Mus. Anthropology 11, Sever 6 Botany 11, Sever 17 Chemistry A. Allison to Drake (inclusive) Harvard 2 Droppers to Mitchell (inclusive) Harvard 5 Moore to Yesner (inclusive) Harvard 6 Chemistry 3, Zool, Lest. Rm. Economics 1b, Sever 11 Economics 14, Sever 17 Education 1, Sever 6 Engin. Sci. 10, Sever 35 English 3b, Sever 24 English 11b, Emerson J English 29b, Emerson D Fine Arts 1d, Zool, Lect. Rm. French 2-, 6-9, Emerson D French 7, Sever 35 Geography 6, New Lect...
...then the throng having collected, representative of the South's chivalry and the South's courage, the mob thrust their victim into a small steel cage from which there was no escape. They bound him by chains at the hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when...
...most awful test of national greatness. We have never rushed blindly nor conquest-mad to war. We do not rush blindly now. We have endured beyond the point of all endurance, because the sense of justice and forebearance is so keen in us as a people that we hesitate lest one right thinking man might say we have been over-hasty. We may endure no longer, no longer if we desire honor from great nations or pride in ourselves...
...their nation in being loyal to the whole of humanity, they would be justified. (?) But . . . they are failing to serve to their utmost ability that greater cause which they have undertaken to uphold. They are failing both the nation and the race. Let them stop to take thought, lest unwittingly they be doubly disloyal...