Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there was no award of the cup. Between 1882 and 1888 it was won by Pennsylvania seven times and by Haverford once, in 1884. Then it remained unnoticed in the Pennsylvania trophy room for several years and for this reason the cup has not been marked since 1888. Harvard has won it three times...
...Rice '01 and F. E. Thayer '00 S. will represent Harvard in the chess match with Oxford and Cambridge on April 23. The withdrawal of E. R. Perry '03 from College deprived Harvard of one of her best players and for this reason it has been determined to invite J. B. Hunt '02 of Princeton, to play on the American team...
...feature of the practice, which was entirely unexpected, has been the number of promising men who have been the number of promising men who have been discovered. The work of Spratt, Whitney, and Pruyn as line men has given reason to expect that they will develop into good men next fall, and Brockway and Martin have showed themselves very promising halfbacks. The most important discovery, however, has been Sherlock's ability as quarterback...
Close consideration of the matter shows that the good man and the devout man are the same in many particulars. We may even say with much reason that the whole substance of morality is religion; yet it is easier to see the truth of this than the cause of it. The secret is this: moral obligations, unlike others, are universal and unlimited; and hence we cannot help feeling the close connection, almost the coincidence, of our moral selves with a higher being that oversees these obligations...
...conform to a universal law, and any omission of it must be regarded as a sin. Here the similarity to religion and its laws is too clear to demand explanation. Finally, duty is always authoritative. It is the call of the whole world upon the individual, and for this reason it can never be avoided without some resulting misfortune. This call of duty issues from...