Word: bring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religion. The first might try to work among the poor and interest himself in social reform. But he would eventually be sure to find that he could do little or nothing without the conviction that he was working towards some great end, and he would be able to bring but cold comfort to the unfortunate if he could not show them that they were all working in a great purpose...
...deaths of Professor Cooke and Doctor Snow bring sadness into the thoughts of the summer just past. The students can never be unmoved when those who have added much to the enrichment of the Harvard life are taken away from its activities...
...stronger motives of action, and lead to greater results than any mere intellectual convictions. The lever of the great English Rebellion was the Conscience of England, and though Lord Bacon has said that all revolutions begin in the belly, this is in no wise true of such as bring about enduring political changes. So during our own Revolution, though the quarrel certainly began about a point of law, yet the enthusiasm which carried it through disaster and privation to success was kindled and kept alive by the few pregnant abstractions into which the genius of Jefferson had condensed the principles...
...began by saying that I had no wish to renew the Battle of the Books. I cannot bring myself to look upon the literatures of the ancient and modern worlds as antagonists, but rather as friendly rivals in the effort to tear as many as may be from the barbarizing plutolatry which seems to be so rapidly supplanting the worship of what alone is lovely and enduring. No, they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both...
Today ninety-four bids her social goodbye to Harvard. It will bring unfeigned regret to hundreds of the students who are to remain longer in the University. Ninety-four has many members who, by reason of their stalwart manliness and refined gentlemanliness, it has been an education to know...