Word: bestowal
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...every man the fear that he has not taken the advantages of the best gifts of God. By believing God's power is in our experiences, we must force them to elevate our souls. We must wrestle with them till they have given us all they have to bestow on mortal lives...
...celebration of last week has proved to exist. For many years there has been no event in athletics equal in importance to that which we take pleasure in announcing this morning. The gift of Mr. Higginson is unsurpassed alike in generosity and in the direct benefit it will bestow upon athletics. Through his munificence the problem of accommodation for athletic sports has been satisfactorily solved. Harvard is to have a magnificent field, as large as all the grounds now in use. The soil of the new field is better than that of Norton's Field, and can be made ready...
...large course. If it is necessary to give entire charge of any courses to instructors ouside of the faculty, Harvard ought to be able to secure experienced teachers for lower positions as well as for professorships. It certainly does not raise the dignity of the office of instructor to bestow it upon graduates within two years after they have received their degrees of A. B. Every, year this practice is continued will make it more difficult to secnre better men. Moreover it is unfair to the students to assign courses to such inexperienced...
...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...