Word: woe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sports contribute more than all other agencies combined. As a matter of fact, the statements concerning bodily injuries incurred contain gross exaggerations. If athletics have been prostituted by gamblers and pugilists, let the college world come to the rescue and assign them to the place to which they belong. Woe betide the day when our college men, with temptations of every kind besetting them, become so slothful, so demoralized, so diseased as to lose their interest in athletics. In the University of Chicago, athletic work is directly and exclusively under the control of the university authorities. It will so remain...
...privation to success was kindled and kept alive by the few pregnant abstractions into which the genius of Jefferson had condensed the principles of Bodin and Sidney and the eloquence of Rousseau. No wiser man, according to the wisdom of the world, ever lived than Goethe, and he said, "Woe to the man who has trampled on the dreams of his youth;" that is, the power of surrendering himself to a purely abstract enthusiasm. The imagination always asserts its place in history, for it is inseparable from the nature of man, and the story of Colonel Goffe at Deerfield...
...been some doubt as to whether the theft was justifiable or not. Are we not laying ourselves open to the charge of upholding as a principle of our university life one which is worthy only of a band of thieves: "From any outsider steal all that thou canst-but woe unto thee if thou stealest aught from thy brother thief...
...mascot; for every boat that he was in came in first. As there were nine crews entered the races were rowed in three heats. In the first heat were crews number 2, 3, and 4. Crew 2 consisting of Wheetland, stroke; Shreve, 3; Hayward 2; and Kilbreth, bow, woe; crew 3 was second...
...stated last week in one of the New York papers that but two of last year's Yale crew would row this year. This article, describing the poor athletic outlook at Yale, was appropriately headed "Yale's Annual Tale of Woe." But just at present this tale of woe is not so grievous, since Heffelfinger has finally consented to row on the crew this year...