Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true artist's instinct, he knows a picture when he sees it, and he has been most happy in his rendering of the chosen themes. The set is published by L. Prang and Co. and sold at $1.50. It is a series of exquisite holiday pictures that ought to prove attractive to all who care for old Cambridge and good...
...communication in yesterday's issue in regard to the formation of a sophomore literary society deserves consideration, but we are not prepared to say that it deserves anything more. The existence of an organization in the sophomore year which would be of a purely literary character might prove a great blessing in lessening the power of some of the evils which beset second-year students; but whether any such society could be put upon a foundation which would secure to it inviolably devotion to the principles which gave it birth, is a matter of extreme doubt. There...
...others of the same kin. It would be impossible to believe that such a state of affairs could exist in this college were not the fact too well demonstrated in two or three cases during the past year. If the inherent dignity and honor of a man does not prove a barrier to all such acts, some watch should be kept in the gymnasium which would...
...small colleges, she is steadily gaining, and it is possible that she may soon take her place in the athletic games among the large universities. Surely there are few colleges more deserving of success, and it is sincerely hoped that she will soon be in a position to prove her work...
...singular that we cannot prove religious facts. No great religious truths have been proved to the satisfaction of the average man. A man before he enters college is not awake to the intellectual side of life. During his college course he usually looks mainly at the intellectual side. So a man in college naturally doubts. But there are other things in life than reason. Theology and religion are very different. Theology solves the problems, but religion is for one's life, whether a man live well or ill. Then give up the insolvable problems, no one can solve them...