Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...self, and a constant effort to do something to help the team. The men were urged to take advantage of the time from now until next fall in fitting themselves for some position and in keeping in good physical condition. Every player is expected to do everything be can think of to help the team to be at its best for the Yale game, the test of the success or failure of the season...
...public with clearness and force, who are interested in the forms of public discourse, for intercollegiate debating offers just that idea of tussle, wrestle and fight which appeal to a youth's imagination. The great advantage in this careful study of rebuttal is, not that a youth learns to think thoroughly and independently, though he does gain this power through it, but that be come by to realize that in almost all questions of the day the other man has nearly as good a right to his opinion as he has to his. Recognition of this facts means broad-mindedness...
...house of a friend, puts his precious existence in jeopardy from starvation. On the other hand it may be said that the man who goes out to dinner at noon and returns in the evening to eat another dinner at Memorial scores twice. Now I do not think that the distinction, if any is made at all, should be in favor of the gourmand. And I think that many men, even those who get up to breakfast and don't go out to tea, would prefer to have Sunday dinner at noon...
...person should not delay making his choice in religion for the reason that a refusal of the right is always an acceptance of the wrong. The truth is not what we think, but what Christ says...
...method by which they are working, if reports are accurate, seems open to question. In most undertakings one begins by estimating his probable receipts, and then decides from that what he can spend. The committee have quite reversed this process. First they have hit upon the amount which they think it desirable for the Union to spend, and then have tried to bring the income to that figure regardless of other matters. Their idea is that expense should determine income, not that income should determine expense. In other words, these kindly Procrusteans propose to build a bedstead of ample size...