Word: slips
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...battery was well up to the standard we have been taught to expect. With the nine in its present condition, there ought to be but little doubt of the issue of the game against Brown this afternoon. At any rate, we feel justified in the belief that the ruinous slip made by the nine in its game at Providence last year is not to be repeated...
...profoundly shameful; we have moments and seasons in which we feel very wretched and guilty. There is an anarchy in our souls which seems somehow to accuse us of treason and rebellion. But what does all this become in the scheme of fatalism? A delusion, a disease. Guilt cannot slip in through the network of necessary causation. If my ancestors were vicious, if my bringing up was bad, if my temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself? Yet how am I to account for this consciousness of sin, which is wholly different from the consciousness of folly...
...common occurrences in America. As a usual thing, such requests excite but little comment, but the following, which we take from a recent number of Harpers' certainly ought to command attention by its exceedingly practical piety. It is headed "A Prayer for Royer's Academy." printed on a slip of paper, and sent about as a circular. It opens with an invocation to the Almighty and the All-wise, and thanks Him that He has put it into the hearts of men to "build this academy," and that "amid all the discouragement the work has gone forward," until the edifice...
...hardly accustomed to the light of day, has already proved so demoralizing to our characters and dangerous to our safety that it has been suppressed? If, however, these suppositions are all incorrect, what then has become of the Hockey Club? The opportunities which it has of usefulness are fast slipping away. Will they all slip away before the awakening of the club from its present lethargy...
...outside showed the ominous words, "Return to Allen Danforth," in the corner, and upperclassmen who read this legend knew well enough what was inside. Now it happened that we were sitting in the room of a prominent '85 man when this important official document fell through his letter-slip, and dropped unpretentiously to the floor. To us the disjointed comments he made while perusing the contents seemed rather to the point, and we print them, thinking that other men may recognize their pertinence...