Word: tending
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Looking at the problem of the cultivation of world sympathy from the stand-point of a widely travelled and broadly sympathetic man like Phillips Brooks, the lecturer endeavored to point out the causes which, in modern society, tend towards and against such sympathy. "How simple it all growes as we grow older," wrote Mr. Brooks after his return from India, when his incomparable experience had finally fallen into place in the perspective of his religious thinking. "The whole of what we personally have to live and what we go out to preach is sympathy to Christ. To grow better...
...will prevent personal contact and will tend thereby to eradicate brutality in the line...
...will tend to prevent injuries...
Reverence for religion is said to be decreasing as a result of our growing democracy. This is only true in a certain sense, in that we no tonger respect symbols. The robe of the priest and mere matters of form tend to lose their position of respect as democracy increases, but in their place comes an estimation of the true value of the facts represented. We see that the symbols represent the true type that we demand. There is no diminution of reverence of the true God and the power of the University. True reverence is perfectly consistent with genuine...
...formation of a neutral zone between the two teams, as wide as the ball is long, will tend to keep the teams far enough apart to enable the officials to distinctly see every motion of every man in the line, and the fact that the minute a player puts any part of his body into this neutral zone he may be penalized for offside play will do away with much of the rough contact now possible in the line of scrimmage...