Word: worst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...want to do now is to make ours feel that the University is with it, believes in it, and looks to it to win honors at Springfield. Otherwise, if we are beaten, we shall be largely responsible for the defeat, for we shall have discouraged our men - about the worst thing...
Scorn expresses itself against religion, morality, love, against all the greats facts of human life; but the scorn of religion is the worst form. This scorn is often the first stage of sin in the young man. He sits on a lofty seat and surveys the religious views of those about him first with doubt, then with contempt. In this process he soon hardens his conscience and then temptations find him an easy prey. There is also a scorn of ungodliness. There are men who sneer at the evils of their time, who vent their sarcasm on the wrong which...
...second half, Brice took Lewis' place at centre and the change was for the worst as Garfield made frequent good gains between Mackie and centre, and the same thing happened when Russell took Brice's place. The weakness of the centre seemed to affect the whole team and for a while the blocking and tackling of the rush line were very loose; however, when Lewis again came to centre the eleven pulled together once more and again began scoring...
True liberty is the enlargement of life. To obey law is to gain liberty, for anarchy or "no law" rule brings the worst sort of servility. All the forces which make enlargement of life possible, education, physical training, religion, are roads to liberty. From this we may form a definition of liberty. Liberty is the transfer of allegiance from lower to higher things. The young man again, who gives up law in his search for liberty, who moves in a world of irresponsibility, whose life becomes irregular and disorderly, never finds liberty till he attaches himself to some higher interest...
...first game Harvard suffered her worst defeat at the hands of Yale in base ball...