Word: touch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...created by a "professional trainer." An exemplification of such a coach who takes charge of the teams year after year, is to be had in Mr. Lathrop. The success of the Mott Haven team is due largely to having the supervision of a man who, besides being in touch with the present, has behind him all the valuable experience of past years...
...Morality is today challenged on every hand. Nothing stands free from the assault of criticism. To maintain our civilization, we must have a science of right conduct and good character. We might have a science of morality which would trace the facts of our moral life, and yet not touch on morality, or Heaven, or God. It is the consideration of this moral life, which will advance ethics. More than discovering the character of good and evil, we must discover our own life character, and the secrets in the development of our moral life. For the sake of clearer knowledge...
...writer in the last Advocate, who urges the need of a course in college devoted to subjects of current interest, both political and moral, has touched on a matter of no little importance. What he says about the tendency of college men to neglect the affairs of the present day, is in a degree, true. There must always be in a college to a greater or less extent, the danger of monasticism, of seclusion from the outside world to live the life of the little university community. The cry against the impractical side of a college education has its ground...
...experience to speak on the questions, political and moral, which are agitating the world today. The conferences do not limit themselves to college instruction, in fact they look for speakers mostly in the outside world. In this way they afford a capital opportunity for the college to keep in touch in an interesting way with the events and thoughts of the world...
...present rule says that the ball may be punted out after a touch-down from behind the opponent's goal, a player may feint at catching it and really punt it back towards the goal line, and it may be stopped by the opposing side so near to their line that another touch down is absolutely certain...