Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While the football season just closing seems at first thought to have been a most disastrous one for Harvard, we do not believe that it will prove such in the long run. Our team has been beaten twice; - the first time largely by luck, the second time by distinctly superior playing. Nevertheless, we believe we never stood in a more favorable light before the public than at present. Feeling against the "anything to win" policy has grown very strong, and the sooner that policy is abandoned the better for amateur sport everywhere...
...body was provided for while in the tomb. Food was left for its subsistence. It was believed that the double would continue only while the body lived. For this reason great care was taken in embalming the body and in the construction of the tomb. It was thought possible to increase the chance of the continuance of the double by placing in the tomb statues of the dead. Then arose the practice of covering the walls with representations of offerings of food, with magic formulae for transforming these representations into food...
Professor Bartlett, another of the Faculty members of this committee, expressed the same desire not to speak at the present time. Dean Briggs and Professor Shaler also thought the time not yet ripe for speech...
Professor J. Estlin Carpenter spoke last night before the Religious Union on liberal thought in English theology...
...showed the effect of liberal thought upon the two great divisions of English Theologists; the Anglican Church, and the Non-Conformists. He said that the liberal movement had tended toward a federation of these two great bodies, and that it might in time bring about the disestablishment of the Anglican Church, as it had already done with the Irish Church, and proposed to do with the established Church of Wales. The movement had extended in two directions, he said, towards criticism of dogmas, and criticism of Scripture. One great thing which the new line of thought accomplished was to show...