Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yesterday every one could think of little except the brilliant game which Harvard won. Men passed one another with smiles on their faces and near neighbors could not help shaking hands. No one about Cambridge can remember such a day and we have no record of a like. At first sight, all this enthusiasm about a mere foot ball game seems the height of absurdity, and we have no doubt that our actions will be criticised severely by outsiders. But if looked at below the surface, the result of Saturday's game means more than the ordinary athletic victory...
...sermon was a comparison of man and the lower animal. The speaker demonstrated the superiority of the former by his advantages of mind, reason and will; recounted the love of God for man and ended in an appeal to man to think of the things now and to act upon them...
...expense of clearing Norton's field intended to benefit teams in no way connected with Harvard? Is not the Cambridge Common good enough for these juvenile hordes? The official way in which the field is roped off and and taken possession of for these games, would lead one to think that these schools had authoritative permission to do so. Now there cannot be the slightest doubt under the existing circumstances, that they ought not to have this permission; if they do not have it, some one in authority ought to command them to play elsewhere and leave Norton's field...
...place to play foot ball. But the writer overlooks the fact that the field was taken to help 'varsity teams and that the cost of maintaining the grounds is paid by the University Associations. It is then, the right of 'varsity captains to dispose of the grounds as they think best. That there is great wisdom in encouraging this interscholastic league is made evident by merely glancing over the names of the men on the present eleven...
...Bible is not an infallible guide,- it was never meant for that. For then people would never think for themselves. The book is not to save us from the trouble of living and thinking, but to inspire us to work for a spiritual revelation, to wrestle for the truth, and, by our own efforts...