Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much the same thing. We build our lofty ideal castles in the air, and then the task confronts us of adding to them the foundations which shall make them materialize. Those who can do this are those who achieve success. And it is a hard task. We belong to two worlds, the real and the ideal, and each has its share in our lives. All things have birth in the former; but they must gain their full development in the latter before they become of value to mankind...
This endowment will be applied under direction of six Trustees of the Phillips Brooks Memorial, of whom no more than two shall at any time belong to the same religious denomination. Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, Professor George H. Palmer and Robert Treat Paine, Esq. have been requested to act in this capacity and to select by unanimous choice their three associates. These Trustees will fill all vacancies in their number, and have full discretion to arrange and provide for the perpetual, non-sectarian administration and care of this charity. Bishop Brooks' classmates propose to give at least one tenth...
...still other pieces of earlier literature incorporated in the writings of modern days. We know certainly that the Gospel of St Peter was written about 120 A. D., and it contains many quotations from the other four Gospels with which we are familiar; thus proving them to belong to a period nearer the time of Christ than has been previously supposed, and making them more reliable as a record of His life...
...personal influence went so far to make it,-unselfish and genuine and thoroughly manly. And there is one point of especial appropriateness. If he stood for anything, it was for unity of the positive kind: the sinking of minor differences in hard work for the fundamental aims which belong to all the denominations in common. He would be very glad, one cannot but feel, to have his name given to a building where Congregationalists and Unitarians and Episcopalians will be cooperating with each other...
...recently published in the University News. The Russian gymnasium is a school corresponding to our high schools, but managed by the government and on the whole much like a military school. No one can enter a Russian University without a diploma from some gymnasium. The students in these gymnasiums belong necessarily to the wealthiest families as the course is rather expensive. There is on an average one gymnasium to every large city with an attendance ranging from 300 to 500. All officers and students are obliged to wear uniforms and are much limited in all their actions. No students...