Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Temptation is common to man, persistent but conquerable. The secret of overcoming it may be found in these six rules: Resist promptly, and get out of its presence. Make the battle a positive as well as a negative one. Be preoccupied. Be vigilant. Be forearmed. Watch and pray...
...second secret of Jesus' influence was the consecration and the joyousness of His work, thirdly, the influence of Christ was powerful because it was unconscious. He did not set examples, but by the constant nobleness of His life He was an example. From such a life power and strength and influence flowed by no conscious effort, but inevitably, because they were the elements of which it was made...
...which was put forward as betraying the interests of the University was a statement concerning the class elections. This was to the effect that a certain man would run practically on an independent ticket for marshalship. Just what the secret committees of the secret societies had done in the preparation of their "slate" few outsiders had any means of finding out, but it was report so common that even editors of the CRIMSON must have heard of it, that there was much opposition to the nomination of the man in question, and that he was run independently. That a clique...
Since the victory over Pennsylvania, the football team has been in secret practice the greater part of the time in preparation for the final game with Yale. The strain of hard training in the early part of the season caused by the fact that the games with Columbia, West Point and the Carlisle Indians all came in the month of October, followed immediately by the severe work of preparation for the Pennsylvania game, brought the men to such a fineness of physical condition that it became necessary at once to handle them with the greatest care, and to watch their...
...injuries. Thus an unusually large proportion of substitutes have gone into the make-up of the University team during its last stages of preparation, and the practice as a result has often been loose and unsatisfactory. To these considerations should be added the fact that the reports of the secret practice have never been made over-encouraging. This state of affairs was most evident at the time of the Brown game, when the team, being more than half substitutes, could not show that unity of spirit and team play which is so necessary a feature of a finished eleven...