Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early church, he said, owed its splendid organization, its magnificent hierarchy to Rome; but all that was permanently vital and formative came from Greece. When Christianity was still young, the strong literary spirit of the Greeks had a decided effect on it. Thus their elegant rhetoric soon put an end to the spontaneous prophesying which was common in the first days of the church, and made way for the preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea...
Hartwell, captain of last year's crew, then spoke very strongly in favor of the resolution. He said, among other things, that Professors Ames and White, of Harvard, had both put themselves on record as favoring the confinement of athletics to undergraduates; that Harvard would not accept the resolutions for selfish reasons, but that public sentiment would force her to it. The Captains could interpret the constitution in no other way than as allowing them the authority to act as they like...
Capt. Bliss will put the candidates for Yale 'varsity nine into training to day at the gymnasium...
President Adams of the University of Wisconsin recently called a meeting of the faculty and the students to form a boating association. A corporation with a capital of $4,500 was formed and instructed to build a boat house and to make arrangements to put a crew on the water...
...told that "we were on the whole outplayed," "it was fortunate that a 'fluke' touchdown was not given us." finally we are told that our standard "was not up to that of a decidedly mediocre Yale team" -remarkable, is it not, that the best team Yale ever put in the field should have barely succeeded in scoring six points towards the end of the second half? It is unnecessary for us to say anything further upon the subject, for any one who takes the trouble to read the editorial can see for himself that it totally fails in expressing college...