Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request to the corporation, leading to the appointment of a new professor to the chair of Rhetoric which has been vacant for ten years. The students show their interest, not only by a great increase...
George William Curtis was a leader of men. He was such because he was himself a man, a whole man and a true man. He was always, in private as in public, in the home or on the street as upon the rostrum, the knight without peer and without reproach. His fires never paled. What he was before the public, that he was in the grain...
...behind Yale, whose noble gymnasium is amply supplied. It has been said, and with some reason too, that Harvard has only to make its wants known when a benefactor speedily arises. I trust that the voice of a stranger may reach a rich man's ears and remove this reproach from a great University...
...undegraduate rule meant a curtailment of the possibilities of amateur sport, and that such curtailment was unnecessary. A bona fide student-one doing some real work with some definite degree as his object-is to be welcomed, whether from college or professional school. Amateur sport wants only men above reproach, but it wants all these attainable...
...wish peace and happiness, but how can we secure it. The conflict between the good and the bad is torture, and Christ's pure life is a terrible reproach to us. Too often a man can't stand the struggle, and sinks himself deeper in his lusts to stifle conscience. This is the true killing of Christ...