Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...advantage in a dual league except a trifling assurance that gentlemen ought not need nor ask for. If Yale and Harvard cannot hold games without red tape and cumbrous regulations they ought to "quit." The example of the English universities ought to put us to shame. Every feeling but a desire for good sport and fair play ought to be banished from our athletic fields. Since one conference has resulted in a majestic secret, I repeat, I believe more than half the college would favor no league but a tacit agreement...
...exempt from human suffering? No. Was he indifferent to the opinion of mankind? No Did he have the enthusiasm of the fanatic? Such a man would not have been silent. Suffering the acutest agony a human being can endure, having before him the shame of a felon's death, unsupported by any blind enthusiasm or by the impulse of a multitude, his mind was full of peace. Why? Because he was sure of the approval of God. This peace of mind, this love of God, Christ left to his disciples and to the world. He left this and nothing more...