Word: reason
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale stadium committee have abandoned all hope of having the new stadium ready by next fall, and it will not be in shape until the Harvard-Yale game in 1914. The reason for the delay is a possible change of plan regarding the advisability of submerging the stadium. Although a very remarkable drainage plan has been submitted which would make the field dry within half an hour after a storm, its execution would require a huge amount of excavation, and would leave no space for locker rooms. The final decision regarding the matter has not yet been made...
Gustafson devoted his attention chiefly to the practical side of the game and stated that the reason for past successes lay in the existence of a "family feeling" among all members of the team. Every man must apply himself diligently to learning the rudiments of the game, and Freshman candidates particularly should devote themselves to securing a mastery of the rules. Alexander was the last speaker, and after mentioning the success of the University teams in the last six years spoke of the formation of a Boston Lacrosse Club...
...account of afternoon work, are unable to go out for other teams. It is mainly to accommodate these men that practice begins at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon. The records of the teams during the last ten years speak for themselves and there is no reason why more men should not take up the sport...
...League for the past three years. Four years ago it tied for the title, and for the two preceding years won the championship. For the past ten years Harvard has hardly known defeat in lacrosse. Though this year's schedule is considered an unusually difficult one, there is no reason to believe that the team will fall to uphold its enviable past record...
Vorgil and St. Lucian in the "Inferno" are significant of the necessity of the presence of reason and faith throughout our lives. Hell is the revelation of evil, by means of the reason given us by the divine grace of faith. The great lesson of the "Inferno" is that only through the grace of God can we see evil. As he goes on with his great pilgrimage, Dante learns the lessons of the joy of sacrifice, of progress only through present dissatisfaction, and of the salvation of souls by God alone. Life consists, if we but allow...