Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opinion of an expert in athletics during his four years in college and since,- and it would be easy to corroborate it by that of many others. If Mr. Pierce has never, until recently, been aware that this impression exists, his acquaintance must have been restricted within narrow lines. As editor of the Graduates' Magazine I have had communications on the subject from graduates in distant parts of the country,- only last week an '88 man wrote from Western Pennsylvania; I have heard it discussed as a matter of course by students; I have had the complaint made privately...
...whole months Grant strained every nerve to find or make a water passage to out-flank Haines's Bluff, or get the transports past the batteries. It was all in vain. Canals were cut; bayous explored; passages forced through countless narrow channels; but to no purpose. The North was out of patience; the people clamored for Grant's removal...
...prayed is the unity of the whole Christian world. The primitive Christians were closely united and St. Paul spoke repeatedly of the universality of divine love and righteousness. The church, it is true, has not always been true to this, and in a grim despair has made its doctrines narrow, but some of the early belief can always be traced in them...
...exist. When the number of students was small and their interests and activities were necessarily restricted, a weekly or even a bi-weekly paper was easily able to perform the functions of recorder and commentator, the only ones then needed. What real news there was spread quickly through the narrow limits of the college. Those were the times when notice of a club meeting posted at University Hall was sure to be seen within the day by every one interested, so concentrated was college life. It was as this concentration became ever less and less possible, through the extremely rapid...
...Sawyer.The Narrow Escape of a Copley...