Word: waning
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...difficult to be merry at this time; too many of us will feel the loss of friends too keenly to enter into the usual Yuletide spirit. For whether the war has directly affected our family or not, the thought of its existence is enough to make Christian enthusiasm wane a little. This will be Christmas when we can and must get away from thoughtless amusement, from that kind of jollity which is concerned only with personal pleasures. It will be more like that first Holiday nearly 20 centuries ago, when a small group of a great race rejoiced that...
After football there will still be the emotional ministrations of Dr. Sunday. Brightening the corners at the Tabernacle and perhaps darkening the corners of the mind, that interest will wax and wane. After that we know well what great thing will come. It will be Christmas, and the holly and misletoe, and the joyous annual exchange of gifts. No human interest like Christmas! Once it did not exist at all in New England! It was necessary to create it. It was created, and it filled the bill. It came in response to a demand of the human heart. There...
...should work longer than we play. In addition to these, there is a place for the other quality which is neither work nor play--but just nonsense. It stimulates the appreciation of gravity by way of contrast, and without fuel of this sort, enthusiasm for serious ideals might wane. Like all curatines, it should be taken with moderation, yet its advantageous qualities must not be denied. Our mental and spiritual health demands a licensed escape from responsibility logic and accuracy...
...total lack of team play on either side. Owing to lack of practice the forwards on the University team played very raggedly and they failed to show the knowledge of the game displayed against Columbia. The passing was most inaccurate and the men seldom kept their positions wane skating down the rink. The work of the University forwards was especially wild at critical moments near Princeton's goal. With the Occasional exception of Macleod they still fail to follow back properly after losing the puck, and if the Princeton team had not been equally deficient in this respect the score...
...necessarily from a defeated team. In may opinion it would be a pity to hold these sports annually, and I believe this view is supported by the athletes of the universities concerned. If the sports were held at short intervals there would be a tendency for the interest to wane, there would also be a difficulty regarding university arrangements, and it might not always be easy to meet the expenses. Moreover it is desirable in the return matches that the teams should be mainly composed of new blood. But return matches there should be, and inter-university contests ought certainly...