Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...There cannot be any reasonable objection to evening hours on religious grounds, for morning and afternoon services are both open to those who wish to go to church. Furthermore, even if two attendants prefer to have evenings free, in such a matter the wishes of one or two cannot be considered against the wishes of one or two hundred...
...three things are essential: First, good food--the study of the word of God; second pure air--daily prayer with God; and third, exercise--in working for others. Greatness in this world consists in service, and we shall gain our lives by giving them up willingly to others. We cannot control our feelings but we can our will. Therefore we can all become Christians by allowing Christ to be our pilot...
...scene of the first act is a village on the Hardanger Fjord, Norway, at Yule-tide in the year 1000, while the people of the village are holding a Yule-tide festival. By a prevailing statute, Magnus Jarl, the head of the village, cannot retain his jarldom unless he finds a husband for his only daughter Sylvia, before the spring. Sigurd, a villainous youth, aspires to her hand, but when, urged by Olaf, he presses his suit, he is scorned by her. Sigurd, then makes advances to Sylvia's father, the Jarl, but is again repulsed. At this juncture...
...written exceedingly well, and has none of the stereotyped dryness which is too often found in such sketches. the author has told the story of Governor Wolcott's life from his early school-days, and portrays the personality of the man with a happy appreciation of his character. This cannot fail to impress every one who knew of him, especially the great number of students whose knowledge was limited to hearing him speak in Cambridge on different occasions, as he so often...
...author goes on to say: "The figures go far to show that the Harvard undergraduate is not the arrant idler he is sometimes supposed to be. On the other hand, they cannot be said to lend much support to the belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public...