Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must feel very much disappointed at the result of the game we have one thing to say which gives us as much pleasure as it would if Harvard had won. We can thank the team for the faithfulness which has kept them up to their work through thick and thin, and the coaches for the assistance which they have given in developing the material. The line of defeats which Harvard has sustained has logically produced as much effect in one direction as the line of victories has for Yale in another. Against the discouraging influence of these defeats Harvard...
...part of Norton's Field into a pond. There was very fair skating on this field for several days last winter. Skating throughout the greater part of the cold weather may be assured merely by making provision for letting on enough water from time to time to form a thin sheet over the field; this would freeze in one night and renew the ice surface when it had become roughened by use or covered by snow. The expense certainly would not be great...
should be worth artistic treatment, and work even on a college story may well be artistic in every sense. "The Yale Game" is thin and unattractive in plot and substance and not particularly well written. The author can do much better...
...Paul's Basis of Morality." When Satan tempted the Lord it was with the suggestion that He was not the Son of God. All temptations must be answered in the strength of this suggestion. The independent power to gratify oneself is the basis of morality. Men too often thin that religion and morality differ and the idea causes much forced religion. Satan is our personal enemy and pledged to destroy us; this we must keep in mind. He hates us because humanity represents God. There is also a tendency to attribute all evil to influences; this is a dangerous fault...
There are two ways of looking at the world: one is that of the cynic and pessimist who maintains that the foundation of things is bad and that all so-called right and beauty is only a thin veil over it; the other view sees that God's judgment on his world is the right one and that the creation is surely advancing to perfection...