Word: vaguest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unanimous testimony of the men who have witnessed or taken part in the scrimmages of the past few years will bear me out when I say that the following is a more exact statement of the facts: There have been sporadic instances of encounters between quick-tempered individuals. The vaguest rumor is the only foundation for the statement that these men were "scrapping to pay off old scores." It being physically impossible in the thick of the crowd to do anything but push, these "scraps," as they are called, have all occurred on the out skirts. Some of the spectators...
...number of men dropped from the freshman class last year shows how inaccurately students are likely to be informed about college discipline. Indeed, the field of misconception is not narrowed to the results of discipline, but extends over all the methods. The great majority of students have only the vaguest ideas as to the regulations that exist. We do not take the pains to familiarize ourselves with the regulations as they are, but accept, instead, various statements passed on from class to class. Very often students will even go to the college office and, with perfect sincerity, cite regulations which...
...less criticism of the team, than has been heard here in the last two months. On all sides there is that quiet determination to win, which goes so far toward winning. And it is easily accounted for. To a remarkable degree the students have been content with the vaguest reports on the secret practice and have left its results to show themselves in victory over Yale. This unity is very gratifying and will not fail to have its effect. There is always one danger, however, in connection with such a feeling. An eleven, feeling itself backed up so unanimously...
...evolution. He poses as one who unifies scientific thought through synthesis, but over him hangs the great shadow of the unknowable; in the same breath he seems to say we know all and we know nothing. His inspiration is more concrete than Hegel's but probably vaguer than the vaguest realism. He has not profited by the lesson of philosophy. His idea is great but not satisfactory. The doctrine of evolution teaches that there is something behind the mere mechanism of change, it does not remove ideals but presupposes them...