Word: load
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...grand stands on Soldiers Field have been thoroughly examined by Boston inspectors and pronounced perfectly able to carry the load at the game this afternoon...
...accident which befell Rowley Shepardson, of the freshman class, on Saturday afternoon, resulting fatally yesterday. With several companions he had gone gunning along the canal, and, in pushing off a boat in which he had placed his gun half-cocked, caused the gun to go off, the whole load entering his body. He was taken to the infirmary and given the best medical attention, but death came on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Shepardson's home was in Richmond...
...connection with another passage in the same chapter, Dr. Abbott spoke of our ability ot discern good and evil. He said that man is naturally bad, and in bearing this load of evil his moral faculties are impaired. To develop this power of discernment is life's hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able...
...second place the crews have never been well supported at Princeton. A heavy load of debt has always rested on the management, and it has been hard to get the college to subscribe enough to pay the running expenses of the crews. And this difficulty has been increased by the fact that from '70 to '82 Princeton put but one crew on the water that made even a respectable showing; in the twelve years Princeton won only one intercollegiate contest, and that by default...
...play or compete with professionals has been repealed. This year's set of rules contains more than that first set; the regulations are gradually placing the athletic students more and more under the eyes of the Faculty. The danger now is that the committee will over-run itself and load the students with too much red-tape and too many regulations...