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Word: purely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most marked faults were a general lack of snap and a looseness of playing at critical points. Stevens started off with such a rush that Harvard seemed dazed for at least five minutes and could not get possession of the ball. Several times the ball was lost by pure carelessness; in two instances it was deliberately taken from Harvard players while running. The men tackled and blocked well, and the individual work was good. With so many new men, strong team play was not to be expected. On the whole, the work Saturday was encouraging, and there seems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1889 | See Source »

...among the the first of his class, and his breadth of character, strengthened and nourished by travel, was a marked feature in his life. He always took an active interest in all college affairs, but especially in those for advancing the interests of Harvard. His moral nature was exceptionally pure, and could not fail to impress all with whom he came in contact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Haven Goodwin. | 10/2/1889 | See Source »

...will be seen by the list of freshmen published today, the incoming class of Ninety-three is considerably larger than any previous freshman class. This fact certainly, taken by itself, is a gratifying sign of Harvard's growing prosperity. Unfortunately for all concerned, however, numbers pure and simple are no criterion of a class's merit, and this it will be well for Ninety-three to remember. The opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/28/1889 | See Source »

...soul. We may in the present life "attain unto the resurrection of the dead," but we must ask ourselves if we are alive, if our hopes, ambitions and affections are set in the right way. Examples are before us constantly of men who have had this resurrection-men pure, and leading lives of courage and usefulness. We may in a way understand the nobleness of their lives, but we cannot really know the broadness of the vista which opens before them if we be not ourselves alive. If we are to understand the immortality of the soul we must have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chapel Service. | 4/20/1889 | See Source »

...very frequent. This was especially so before the Renaissance, but even modern scholars have sometimes soberly offered the most ridiculous theories to explain Homeric difficulties. However, the study of Homer at the present time is more intelligent than ever before, one reason being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric age. So that with improved helps and a better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Study of Homer. | 2/14/1889 | See Source »

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