Word: lest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last Whiting recital of the season will be given tonight at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall. As this is the last opportunity that will be afforded for some time to hear Mr. Whiting, it seems fitting that ample notice should be given, lest this concert be overlooked. The recital promises to be one of the best of the series; and that is saying a great deal, for it has been of unusually high standard throughout. One of the best ways of showing the gratitude which is due Mr. Whiting for his efforts is to make this, the farewell...
Granted that Colonel Roosevelt deserves better at the hands of his Alma Mater than hisses and sneers, granted that care must be exercised by Harvard students lest their opinions be attributed in an exaggerated form, and unjustly, to their College as a whole, and still it appears that there has been undue excitement...
...selection for the vacancy. The line, however, will be left with only three of the seven men, Estep at tackle, Dunbar at guard, and Hogsett at end. The loss of Engelhorn, Bennett and Gibson will make it a difficult matter to build up a line of the strength of lest year's combination. Rogers and Hickox are two heavy men who will probably fill two of the places. For Barends's place at end there are a number of likely substitutes from last year's team, the most promising being Loudon, Lafferty and Rector. The success of the team will...
...York Evening Post is part of an article by President Fitch on "Religious Life at Harvard." "The first and universal characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate," he finds, "is a dread of seeming to appear better than he is." As a consequence, "he often appears worse than he is, lest you should think him to be what he is not. Prayer meetings repel him, and yet the daily morning service in Application Chapel is attended by one hundred of the fifteen hundred who could be expected to attend it. In what ordinary community of fifteen hundred could you support a daily...
...Wise Man" philosophizing aloud, and near him, on a pedestal, an hour glass. The "Wise Man" was a teacher and he philosophized in language that betokened him an atheist. A "Fool" enters. He admits he is a fool but he tells not his beliefs about some things lest they be stolen from him. The "Fool" leaves and the philosopher continues his speculations. He is about to call his students when he sees standing in the aperture to his study an angel, and anatomical anger, of course, one really anatomically possible since it had no wings. This creature points significantly...