Word: purely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements of opinion in order to put his general theory in practice. For effective public action, compromise with fellow workers is necessary, but the conditions in public life, making compromise necessary, do not favor the pursuit of pure truth. Therefore, why should scholars fall into parties? In action, he that is not with us is against us. In thought, even he that is honestly against us is on our part. Again there can be no compromise concerning truth. Yet there is a limit to freedom, even in a college. There...
...should learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same from year to year, without attempting to vary them by new and tricky plays which have to be practiced in secret behind high...
This year's team, without hope of reward, but out of pure college enthusiasm raised their college ten thousand points in the struggle for the championship. Thus for this reason as well as to encourage men to train next year, this year's team ought to be recognized and given appropriate insignia. Yours respectfully...
...chief changes which affect this problem and which have taken place in the last six years are the completion of the metropolitan sewer, whereby all sewage above the site of the proposed dam has been diverted from the Charles, thus rendering that river comparatively pure; and the giving up of the use of the river for purposes of commerce. All riparian rights on the Cambridge side and all but three wharf rights on the Boston side from the west Boston bridge to the Watertown dam have been purchased either by the cities along the river or by the Metropolitan Park...
...development of Christian life these three things are essential: First, good food--the study of the word of God; second pure air--daily prayer with God; and third, exercise--in working for others. Greatness in this world consists in service, and we shall gain our lives by giving them up willingly to others. We cannot control our feelings but we can our will. Therefore we can all become Christians by allowing Christ to be our pilot...