Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...done, and showed that they have the stuff in them out of which a first class eleven can be made. With another year's work, which more than half the men will get, there is no reason why we should not be able to defeat Yale and Princeton. One thing especially, the eleven showed to every one who saw the game, that is, that there is no inherent reason why Harvard should not play as scientific a game as Yale, though in past years we have never done so. The eleven has worked hard, and the results have been...
...disappeared from various parts of Cambridge on the night of the parade have been returned by the contrite and frightened buccaneers; and, not only the flags reported as lost, but two more not previously missed! As we supposed the offenders in every case were freshmen; yet it is a thing at which to be gratified that they should have been manly enough to come forward when they found that their escape was serious, and give up their plunder, we trust, unharmed. We congratulate the Anniversary Committee upon being able to settle the matter so quietly and so quickly...
...interested in college athletics, and will surprise those who have been depreciating the team as a raw eleven not worth much. It is a raw eleven in the sense that most of its members have never played on the University before; but that is quite a different thing from saying that they are not good. In fact, considering the peculiar circumstances under which Harvard has played football for the last two years, it is just as well that most of the men are new men, and have no bad teaching to unlearn. It is, indeed, to this readiness to learn...
...thing the team should bear in mind is that almost all Yale's victories have been due as much to her prestige as to her skill, to the other team going into the contest with the expectation of being defeated. The only times of late years when Yale has been met by a really confident team have been the last two Yale-Princeton games. In the first one, the game was never finished, but it was anybody's game all the way through, while last year's game resulted in a well-earned victory for Princeton. These two games...
...State, the institution in the Commonwealth. Everywhere you have the principle of elemental life, the principle that every life, except the greatest lives in its element, the particle in the universal, the eternal in the eternal, that whether they be actually conscious of it or not, all things which really live are feeding themselves out of a great atmosphere of larger life which surrounds them and to which they must forever keep themselves open. The part which knows itself and lives in obedience and receptively to its great whole is strong. The part which calls itself a whole and shuts...