Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...respect our crews and nines are heavily handicapped at the beginning of each season. We are under the misfortune of attending a college situated so far to the north that the period between the departure of winter and the time when the season of championship contests begins is extremely short. This year we are especially hindered in our out-of-door training. The ice is just beginning to break up in the river, and the state of Holmes and Jarvis is anything but satisfactory for the prospects of the base-ball and lacrosse teams. The lesson to be drawn from...
...letters grow less and less frequent after his marriage, and he seems to settle down with only an occasional bit of love-making. So his life drifts along until his wife dies. Then he is plunged into bitter grief-a grief so honest that we are forced to respect it, for grief, somehow, throws a mantle of dignity around even a fool. Yet his sorrows are much aggravated by various causes-among others a natural fear taking root in his mind that perhaps he would be condemned to Hell on his death. He speaks of "the want of absolute certainly...
...that old Aldine or that rare Plotinus yonder, than he cares for the outside world or for his own soul. The world is centered in his library. A few intimates there are to whom he lays bare his feelings, and of most authors he is desirous of winning the respect; but the great mass of men, 'the unknown public,' who have not his fame or wealth, he loathes and spurns from his side. He remembers having heard of a book known as the Bible, once when he was a boy, and he has an edition of this work...
...former. We observe that among the lectures at the Divinity School last year was one on Vivisection, by the Dean of the Medical Faculty. This suggests the utility of a lecture to the undergraduates by the Dean of the Divinity School, setting forth the grounds of his liberality in respect to prayers in his own domain...
...claim upon those who practice abstinence and have the good name of their college at heart, to come forward and support the League by their membership. Many men refuse to join, merely because they do not believe in pledges. These are among the men who have the greatest respect for their college, and to these I appeal to give the League their support, not on the ground that it will influence their conduct for the better, but on the ground that the good name of the college may be sustained. I sincerely hope those men who at once practice total...