Word: repellent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never succeed in winning their way into their class-mates good graces. (I do not here include the few men in every class who are truly worthy of contempt and disapproval.) These men may be naturally good and agreeable fellows, who come here without knowing anyone, repel those with whom they come in contact by an unfortunate lack of manners or by a hampering poverty, and then are frozen up into themselves by the snobbery which they encounter, and lose all the sweetness of college life in the solitude of their rooms. Exactly such cases are comparatively rare, I know...
...hands are not to be attributed to Harvard ill luck. There can no longer be any doubt of the fact that Yale is essentially a more athletic college than Harvard. The reason for this is patent. The social conditions at Yale attract athletes; the social conditions at Harvard repel them. Yale's very being is bound up in athletics. She sacrifices everything for athletic victory...
...then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider...
...members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into the world with - in many cases - a deep-seated aversion for such religious services as they have been forced to attend, is it not folly to maintain such...