Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...single redeeming feature in the playing of the University eleven on Saturday. With only a week before the game for which the entire season is preparatory, there still remain several fundamentals of football to be learned by the players. After the first two minutes, the team did not pretend to play hard football. Of course the wet ball and the slippery field excused many faults, but the team has overcome these difficulties in other games. The game Saturday showed a reaction, perhaps a slump...
Professor White's course does not offer to give a thorough knowledge of Greek. No one course could pretend to. What it should be able to do, however, is to aid a man in reading for the sake of reading and to help him to a general, but still broadening and enlightening, appreciation of Greek Drama...
...Monroe Doctrine forbids us to acquiesce in any territorial aggrandizement by a European power on American soil at the expense of an American state. If people wish to reject the Monroe Doctrine in its entirety, their attitde, though discreditable to their farsighted patriotism, is illogical; but let no one pretend that the present Venezuelan case does not come within the strictest view of the Monroe Doctrine. If we permit a European nation in each case itself to decide whether or not the territory which it wishes to seize is its own, then the Monroe Doctrine has no real existence...
...however, the relation of religion to civil authority is precisely opposite. As laymen could pretend to no authority over members of the clergy, so now the church holds no power over the civillaw. The church is, in a sense, "established." It is recognized and protected by the law. The constitution of our country makes no requirement of religious belief to make a person eligible for office. Moreover, it forbids the passage of any laws for the benefit of any sect. All beliefs are tolerated, and the law that offers them its protection is independent of them, just as the church...
...decision was final. A few letters followed and the result of the correspondence is that Princeton has receded from the stand she first took. Far be it from us to exult in the position she now finds herself. What the causes were we do not pretend to say, but it is certain that Princeton was placed in an embarrassing position when she found herself called upon to make a final decision. The best course was clearly the hardest and most humiliating to pursue. And yet it is much to the credit of Princeton men that they were manly enough...