Word: awe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George A. Gordon preached as Appleton Chapel last evening. He found his text in I Thessalonians 5: 19. "Quench not the spirit." He said that every right young person stands on the threshold of life in admiration and awe. The vastness and solemnity of the structure before him, and the instinct sympathy of the young with the divine thought, unite to rouse reverence in him. If this spirit were permanent there would never be any gratifying of the lusts of the flesh. But as we grow old, we lose our delicate susceptibility to the breathing spirit of God. We quench...
...some have been racked beyond the limits of endurance. Perhaps none have suffered more than the ill-fated "university." The best of our colleges are as yet not equal to the true universities of England and Germany; but in spite of this we dub every little college with the awe-inspiring title of university, and then stand off and gaze at our work in fond admiration; and, in name at least. we place the Transylvania University of Kentucky, the East Tennessee University and the Upper Iowa University on an equal with their prototypes of Oxford, Berlin and Jena...
...ball fields there are a couple of curious old sign-boards which freshmen are won't to look upon with awe, but still with a certain satisfaction. They refer to ball-playing and some of the other accomplishments of the American youth as practised by those who are not members of Harvard University. If we remember rightly, these same boards contain upon them words of terrible meaning-something about "prosecution to the full extent of the law." For the benefit of those who have been astonished at the audacity of such extreme measures, we would say that long years...
...been seeming to herself to be doing only this, God has been bearing testimony in her to the nearness of his love and to the divineness of manhood as his child, now, at her festival, when she gathers all history up into her consciousness and stands in awe before herself, now is the time for her to boldly recognize her own profounder meaning, to own the Christhood within which she has lived, and to give her whole future up to it for government, and help, and blessing. Let us demand of her to do that for herself...
...their own team. The work done by the freshman team so far shows clearly that it is one of the best that has entered college in some time. For a year or two past, freshman teams have been wont to look upon the Exeter game with a certain awe, but only a few years back Exeter was often defeated by the freshmen, and why should this not be repeated again this year? The Exeter eleven is lighter than it has been in several years, and with a strong team play, coupled with a little head work, there is no reason...