Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner to the eleven last night was from all points of view a marked success and both in numbers and enthusiasm, surpassed any dinner that has ever been given by Harvard men to an athletic team. The fact is more remarkable, too, when we reflect that the team in whose honor the dinner was given has been far from successful in actual victories won. There is but one conclusion to be drawn. Captain Cumnock and his men were honored for their manly struggle and signal fair play throughout the season...
...liabilities have been all met within one hundred and fifty-eight dollars. We hardly believe that a more excellent showing can be made by the management of any past crew, and we heartily congratulate the present incumbent upon his success. His work is the more pleasing when we reflect that the crew is a nonsupporting organization depending entirely upon subscriptions for its maintenance...
...become exhausted, the knowledge of experience becomes essential; he can tell from the scale of fish everything science tells us about the fish; from a chip he can recognize a Greek statue; from a bone he can draw the skeleton. In fine, his object is to make the part reflect the whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization is due the rise of comparative history, comparative art, religion, philology, jurisprudence, etc. In philosophy also the German has done noble work; he treats it psychologically, and not as the Greek did, auto-logically. He looks into the conditions...
...also," and in the life of Christ we have had a perfect likeness of God's goodness and purity. In these days the trouble is that those who profess to be sons of God, do not give to the outside world traits belonging to the Father-they do not reflect his "loving kindnesses and tender mercies." It should be the aim of all of us who call ourselves Christians, to live in such a way that by our actions we may reflect the goodness of God and may prove ourselves to be his true sons...
...false. Each professor exercises full power over any student who cuts his course oftener than the instructor thinks advisable and such power extends even to expulsion from the course. It is not seldom taken advantage of. To say that the Board of Overseers have proved their wisdom is to reflect upon President Eliot, the one best fitted to judge of the matter...