Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From now until the twenty-fourth of the month a large part of the work will be done of necessity in secret. There is, therefore, all the more reason that when an opportunity is given to watch the play there should be a great many present. It is a pity that "three times three" are not called for once in a while on Soldiers Field. It is doubtful if many of the first-year men know what the Harvard cheer...
...acting in cooperation, but individually. The new movement was intended to combine all the societies, that they might gain strength from union, and also to bring into the work other men who were not members of any religious organization, but were ready to help in the common charity. The reason that brought men of different creeds and doctrines together to work side by side lay in the fact that they all felt the same deep love for God and man, and they knew that these sentiments were best expressed by philanthropic work...
...banker, the minister, the man with a vigorous body, every one has a peculiar temptation favored by the circumstances of his life. The stronger and richer the life, the stronger is the temptation. That it is natural or rather inevitable to the life is no excuse but rather a reason for special effort against it. If a man fights bravely and at last successfully against his temptation it may in reality become to him a tree of life, for the strength gained in fighting the temptation he might without it have never had. To conquer temptation man must bury...
...football field this year. So thoroughly has every trace of the unpleasantness which once existed died out in both universities that it seems that nothing but good results could have come from a game. For the past few years the football season has ended somewhat unsatisfactorily by reason of the failure of these teams to meet each other. With regard to the effect which such a contest would have upon the Yale game, the experience of a hard game should certainly strengthen the eleven by a disclosure of its weak points. This fact was evidenced by the Yale-Pennsylvania game...
...believe that the study of imaginative literature tends to sanity of mind, and to keep the Caliban Common Sense, a very useful monster in his proper place from making himself King over us. It is the study of order, proportion, arrangement, of the highest and purest Reason. It teaches that chance has less to do with success than forethought, will and work...