Word: timid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...becomes unfit physically, he should be kept out of it. But once and for all, let us not give the youths of the day the impression that the only sports to be indulged in are those which do not call for courage. To the timid, a vigorous, well-fought football game is an unpleasant spectacle, and they shudder to think of the possibilities. * * * A man of courage knows too well the dangers of the game, but he also knows how much greater are its benefits...
...pleasant and profitable and its success or failure is now in the hands of the new comers. They can make it or spoil it as they choose to attend or stay away. The man who purposely stays away is either so snobbish that he won't go or so timid that he's blind, and in either case he's much better outside of such a gathering and outside the college. Every man who is not blind to his opportunity and and who has his welfare at heart will find it well worth his while to attend the reception tonight...
...bird is in the far north - in the most northern bed of coniferous forests and forests and that they are so seldom harrassed there that they know absolutely nothing of danger. Almost all Arctic birds are tamer than more southern bred species, but the Pine Grosbeak is the least timid of the Arctic race...
Professor Lyon, at the Chapel yesterday evening, spoke en the character of Jeremiah, on his times, life and teachings. He said: Jeremiah was the greatest of the prophets, not the deepest thinker, but the strongest character. Naturally timid, the conviction that he spoke the words of God gave him courage, and he spoke words of truth for all times and all peoples. Sympathetic and patriotic, yet he was severe in the face of persistent wrong-doing. There are three permanent elements of truth underlying the prophet's thought (1) there is but one God, (2) the government of the world...
...attraction,' he says, 'of unconscious holiness is of an urgent and inevitable nature, it persuades the weak, the timid, the wavering, and the inquiring; it draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces...