Word: loses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tournament allow a suggestion as to the manner of determining the winning two couples from each section? Two methods have been proposed, but both are opened to objection. If the decision is made on the basis of games won, the element of luck is unnecessarily large. A couple might lose two games and win the other. If they had kept their opponents' score down and made the most of their good cards, when they did come, they ought to reap the advantage...
...chapel was well filled last evening to hear the Rev. Washington Gladden, D. D. give his last Sunday sermon before returning to the west. His subject was from Luke XVII, 33, "Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve...
...personality which saves men is often the object of merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...
...Stone '93. President Eliot spoke briefly of the inability of public men to speak forcibly and of the need of just such public contests as these debates for bringing out this ability. Speakers generally address audiences which are on their side from the beginning and thus lose the great benefit of meeting an opponent face to face, which is after all the great thing to be desired. American audiences need to be trained, too. They are placed, in these debates, in the unique position of being obliged to listen to both sides and it is an excellent thing for them...
...Individuality and personality are necessary but they are very different from that self-consciousness which leads a man to think primarily of his own virtues. Peter. Paul and John may have been self-conscious before Christ came, but when He came His mightier personality transformed them. They did not lose their own personalities; they simply forgot everything except the message of this greater Power...