Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Godless, irreligious even atheistic, are terms of reproach at which the Harvard student of today merely shrugs his shoulder. They have been used too long and too often. Yet there are excellent reasons for saying that such opinions are quite illfounded and false When a truly worth-while preacher appears, the Chapel can not contain the crowds that throng to hear him. An average attendance of almost 300 men at an optional course on religion, held at a none too convenient time in a stuffy hall, is a record of which the colleges who are reported to be praying...
...Indian is doomed. His race is dying, and it will not be long before his poor hunting ground becomes pasture land for cattle, and--with the irony of chance--the returning buffalo. The manner of his going is a bitter reproach to his conquerors, but the blame must be based where it fairly belongs--upon ethical, and not aesthetical grounds...
...over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints the pictures that his heart perceives. He has set himself the task of illustrating the Bible. Already he has finished 125 pictures, covering Genesis and the beginning of Exodus. Said he: "I have always felt it a reproach that almost every nation has produced its painter of the Bible except the one whose genius created that wonderful Book...
...more life, dash and rhythm? I am not indulging in any censorious Jeremiad, for it was evident to every spectator that the Harvard team could not have beaten the Princeton team, even if they had played far beyond themselves and there is no disgrace nor no cause for self-reproach whenever one loses to a superior opponent. I am simply greatly worried about the contrast in the general condition and attitude of the two sets of players, one of the most striking and even tragic contrasts I have seen in the forty-five years of following football contests...
...with no axe to grind at some other man's expense, you would be a perfectly legitimate exhibit here alongside our upright apes and bounding baboons from the African outdoors. But it will not do to install you here, as your presence would be denounced as a reproach to the majority of the proletariat and an insult to predatory...