Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nations of antiquity, the Greeks were the first to conceive the idea of perfect unity in dualism and to reason it out to its fullest extent. They recognized the truth that physical soundness is the basis of mental and moral excellence. They saw in a person's gait a key to his character, and strove to realize that beautiful symmetry of shape, which for us exists only in the ideal, or in the forms of Divinity, which they sculptured from figures of such perfect proportions.' Early in the history of their civilization we find that they bestowed great care upon...
...time, waiting for something to prove the falsity of the accusation. And it seems to us that the proof is at hand. If we go to morning chapel, vesper services, or Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel, we see large numbers of Harvard students: but to anyone who saw the gathering in the Globe Theatre on Sunday evening, the feeling must have come that there is more religion down deep in the hearts of Harvard men than the world has given us credit for. We trust that this new movement will receive all the support it deserves...
...saw the great audience Sunday night can doubt longer-if he has doubted, what good-practical common-sense good-these meetings may do. They are not a piece of Quixotry...
...those who know the magnificent vitality which this game builds up, or who saw, for instance, the splendid physique of those young athletes who stood in confronting lines last Saturday on the field at Harvard, the game of football stands for much more than this show of roughness. The popular notion of the game founded upon the sensational reports of the daily papers and the real game as it progresses before the eyes of the spectators are two different things. It would be amusing, if it were not interfering with the proper understanding of a vital subject, to read, within...
...Ordinary people saw a magnificent exhibition of cultivated strength and beautiful daring, with very few and very slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...