Word: amissions
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...these first days of the college year I want to say to the students a few words which may not come amiss from one who filled here for many years the place of a teacher in morals and religion. Many of you are in the common phrase professors of religion. While I rejoice in the fact I do not like the term. It sometimes cherishes a quasi-godly sort of self-conceit. and it keeps many out of the church who ought to be in it. I go to the table in my own house not because I profess...
...Hebrews God seemed to be invested with all sorts of awful surroundings-vivid sunset colors and fearful thunder-all of which seems strange to us now. Nevertheless our ideas of the Creator are such that the invitation to stand "up on the feet" before Him does not come amiss...
...essential that a man know anything about the science of rowing, or that he has ever even been in a boat-the object of these races is to get new men acquainted with rowing. We assure each and every man of '94 that it will not be amiss for him to enter for Thursday's races...
...interested in the play, and our so doing merits no very severe criticism-and yet time and time again it is a decided hindrance to the men in their work, considerably hampering them in their freedom of motion. A little thoughtfulness in the matter can not be amiss, and that we may act consistently with our own expressions of enthusiasm, we must pay a little attention even to these matters of seeming minor importance. Not an obstacle should be left standing in the march of our eleven toward success...
...will be time enough then to decry it. Young men are far too apt to find fault on the spur of the moment where no material fault lies; and college men most of all, perhaps, are prone to demand more than is their due. It certainly will not be amiss if the present system be allowed a little more time in which to show its good points as well as its bad ones...