Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remarks Christ's question to the impotent man: "Wilt thou be made whole?" He emphasized the fact that there is a spiritual side to every man's nature; that it is not a special gift but is inherent in every character. Christ comes to man not to bestow upon him some new force, but to develop this force which already existed dormant within him. The question is will we be thus made whole-have our manhood rounded out? Will we yield ourselves to God and allow the divine will, which alone knows what our completed character should be, to work...
...Cohn. The movement among the societies of the same type as the Verein to invite prominent men to speak at Harvard has secured some of the most interesting lectures of this term. The societies show in this action an encouraging sign of life and energy and an effort to bestow a genuine benefit upon the whole college outside of the social advantages they offer to their own members...
...seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with Cambridge citizens. The complainants go on to assert that many students were obliged either to stand at the very back of the chapel or to go away, for lack of sufficient space in which to bestow themselves. Now Appleton Chapel was built for Harvard College and for the use of Harvard students. Eminent preachers are engaged to come here and talk to us, and the more eminent the preachers are, the better pleased are we to hear them. By courtesy-misplaced it would seem-the college authorities have...
...highest praise-and this is not exaggerated-which one can bestow on these translations, is the desire which grows in the reader of seeing all of Catullus works rendered so well. This essay and its precursor in a number of last year, are a worthy addition to the small stock of literature that is growing up around Rome's truest lyric poet...
...outcry which may be raised against this unheard-of suggestion, but "fair play" ought to be one of Harvard's mottoes, and we are sure the cricket eleven will repay whatever small amout of care and attention it may please the mighty lords of the athletic association to bestow upon that very deserving but much-abused factor of Harvard atheletics...