Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evident, moreover, that the freshmen have not been taught to feel that when a man presents himself as a candidate for an athletic team here in college, it is his bounden duty, from that time on until the team dissolves, to train faithfully at all times. If the members of the freshman team had understood this and had acted accordingly, some of them would not have appeared so unfit to play as they did yesterday. The team must feel the size of their task and must know that only work can bring victory. The time is now short...
...people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first one class and then another for freedom ended in nothing. All the sadder was this sixteenth century because even the great man who had called the struggle of faith against dogma into being was himself led away by the strong force of circumstances from the ideas of his early manhood, and brought to sacrifice freedom to authority...
...Christian Society, In this pamphlet Luther attacked the whole body of canonic law, and preached, as he knew well, nothing less than a complete revolution in the church and in society. Two more pamphlets published in the same year entitled "The Babylonian Captivity," and "The Liberty of the Christian Man" gave proof of Luther's wonderful productivity. In these three works of 1520 were set forth what is truly vital and permanent in Luther's doctrine. But the people of Germany were not ready for the new teaching, and Luther himself seeing the confusion he had wrought among them...
...separate school of religion with its own teachers and writers. These are the books of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs. Any intelligent reader will notice their clear cut individuality, and the absence of that overweening nationalism so apparent in the Old Testament. In them the patriot is sunk in the man, and persons are distinguished only as righteous or sinful. The more elevated position of parents, the higher idea of marriage, and the dawning thought that virtue and vice bring their own natural consequences are other characteristics of these books, All these things point conclusively to the existence and prosperity...
...very powerful article appeared in yesterday morning's Post on the subject of intercollegiate athletics. It is an article that every man interested in the present athletic situation would do well to read for it goes right to the heart of the matter and contains a condemnation of the professionalism which is now so prevalent. The game with Princeton last Saturday and the meeting held in New York last week are made the basis of the article. The writer says that a state of athletics when protests and affidavits are even necessary is not the state which should be sought...