Word: surest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...question of sending a team to Cambridge to play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this match an annual one, and playing too often would be the surest means of breaking it down altogether. He thought also that Harvard was too strong a club to risk a game against without the training and practice that could only be got in the fall." His view seems to have been adopted by a majority of the club, and accordingly we shall...
...surest remedy is to exclude him. Let those who have the authority present the facts of the case to the editor in chief of the Herald, and there will be no more trouble in that quarter...
...fine bowling of Jones and Gummere lost much of its value in consequence. One of the substitutes muffed Sullivan badly before he had made a single run, or the Mayflowers would have scored less than they did. Two muffs, also, were made by a veteran, usually the surest catch on the Eleven. Tapper and Harris, however, made good catches, and Lee as wicket keep and Bruce as long stop were very efficient. In their second innings, although the "crease" had been rolled, much to the benefit of their adversary's bowling, our Eleven scored 36. They thus just avoided...
...return into your own heart, - joy, lest you find too soon that it stays not on the earth, - the excitement of wine, of music, or of company, for he who drinks of that cup shall find the dregs bitter. In all things seek regularity, for it is the surest destroyer of thought, and all thought leads to dissatisfaction. Arrange a system of hours which has no time allotted for reflection, and so you may escape it; for he who observes a perfect regularity, and fills his time with trifles, proceeds almost without thought, or at least accustoms his mind...
...make their speeches and writings, ideally noble and beautiful. The outflow cannot exceed the supply; and if there is only so much of good in each man, if this runs away in the form of fine words, there is none left for home consumption, and vice versa. Indeed, the surest way to gain the respect and esteem of the world, and to keep it, is to say nothing, to express our wisdom, like the owl, by our looks. The owl, throughout all history, has been distinguished for its dignified silence. When the ancients conferred upon it the proud title...