Word: purely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also has been found insufficient to meet the demand of progressive work. To enable Jefferson to maintain its position in the first of the line; more funds are needed, and this is an especially good time for benefactors of the University and of society to give assistance to science, pure and applied...
...spectators will be required to show their Union membership cards or else special tickets signed by the boxing manager. In the interest of pure sport the management requests that any applause which may be forthcoming will not turn into "rowdyism" or "muckerism...
...Yale committee doubtless feels a natural hesitancy in taking such a step, for fear of putting Yale in a false light with other institutions. But there is possible a point of view even higher than that, which would consider the case in the light of pure justice, justice not of the letter but of spirit. The University does not presume to offer advice to Yale; but, since the matter is not yet settled, it may be worth while to set forth the attitude of Harvard...
...gradually becoming articulate in international law"? When does or can Force ever guarantee the continued existence of these high ends? Force can and does achieve victory, but whether that victory is the victory of truth and justice or simply and solely the victory of the "great battalions" depends upon pure chance. In Europe, for instance, it depends upon some obscure Balkan "statesman" casting his nation's armed forces on one side or the other...
...forth this inner feeling in words, however, to formulate it so that it may crystallize in the minds of others, is a task which, as Dr. Fitch points out, requires both imagination and real religious experience. For, the existence of God cannot be proved either by pure reason, or by physical sense perception. Goethe said: "The universe, divided by reason, leaves a remainder," and it is this residue which must be explained by religious faith...