Word: christian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mind the self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan, who can look death in the face and say, "Where, O grave, are thy plagues," is victor over death and is redeemed from the grave. Jesus Christ was such a martyr, for he interposed his life to save his disciples. Christ's life could not be destroyed by physical...
...CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Sailor Mission. Regular meeting on Saturday, at 7 p.m. in Holden Chapel. The names of the men who will go out on Sunday next are posted on the bulletin. Any member of the University is cordially invited to go with us. We start every Sunday at 9 a.m., sharp, from Harvard Square...
Among the probable lecturers at the public meetings of the Graduate Club are Dr. Lyman Abbott and Col. Higginson. The Prohibition Club has asked Mr. J. S. Wooley of Minneapolis to lecture at an early date. The Natural History Society will have five lectures by prominent Harvard professors; the Christian Association will have three public addresses; and many other organizations will make efforts to induce able lecturers to address their meetings...
...years an Overseer of the College and for the greater part of that time president of the Board. In character he was one of the last of the Puritans, a typical New England man. Like the Puritans, he was simple minded, devoted to his duty, and of a strong Christian faith. His wit was like a New England winter, bracing and keen, sometimes cutting; his heart like the New England June, soft and beautiful; and his whole character like a New England landscape, rugged and strong. He had all the Puritan's love of controversy and all the Puritan...
...President used to say that his spirit went with his students to every field of athletic struggle. It is the Yale spirit of courtesy and chivalry. Athletics are incidental. Scholarship and character are foremost. The University means study, acquirement, manhood, the Christian life. Its ideal is of noble personality, of consecrated character...