Word: calls
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lewis writes pleasantly of "The Call of the River." He evidently feels the call himself and sometimes but not always conveys it to his reader...
...their own sake and for the sake of the society in which they aim to be most highly useful members, college graduates ought to ally themselves with the church. But if their possessions of whatever sort they may be keep them from hearing and obeying Jesus's present call to loving discipleship, the tragedy of the text will be repeated in their lives and their noblest possibilities will be sacrificed. There can be no nobler ambition than, in the words of John Stuart Mill, "so to live that Christ would approve of one's life." There is no higher type...
...duty of all the signers of the petition to reply to this letter. Consider carefully the questions and do not fail to answer fully those that call for suggestions or ideas. The students' request was heartily welcomed by the Faculty; we, in turn, are glad to co-operate with this committee in any way possible...
...time when the elective pamphlet appears, it seems desirable to call the attention of students, particularly of Freshmen, to the fact that the most satisfactory results of College study are often secured by men who plan their work with a view to candidacy for a degree with distinction. (See Catalogue, pp. 508-518). For this gives them a chance to fulfill the popular definition of a liberal education as one which results in knowing a little of everything and all about something. The best way of deciding what kind of distinction to try for has been found...
...soul, he renounces his precarious existence for the sake of others, and foils the devilish intent of the which and the fiend who produced him. It will be seen at once that such a change of tone between the beginning and the end, and so unexpected a call on the sympathy of the audience from a figure which at the outset was not even animate, create a situation the acting success of which it is all but impossible to surmise. But there is no doubt about the fact that, as a reading play, it holds the attention with a firm...