Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vision for a deliverer of their race. This forward looking was the distinguishing feature of the Jewish religion. So that when so simple men as the shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius, Zoroaster and Socrates had all prophesied of some one to come who should relieve humanity. All men, even in our own day, are seekers, eager and earnest in their quest for something larger, nobler, and diviner than the present affords. It is the spirit which draws 3000 men to this place, which is the moving spring of this life...
...individual also Christ offers the great object of their seeking. We find in him ideals for all, one to whom even skeptics have come to point as a perfect example. I would not set him in place of God. "I am the door," he says of himself; by him I would enter to know God. The whole world is looking for this knowledge; the world is an Athens and everywhere is the inscription to the Unknown God. But we worship no longer an unknown God. We have found Him; and in Him one whom we can love, reverence, and imitate...
...Lathrop will be on the track every morning from 11 to 1 o'clock beginning today, to train men for the fall games. Everyone who has any ability at all, either in running or jumping, who is not playing football, is requested to come out at once...
...Captain Perkins for his untiring efforts under the most adverse circumstances. And we all know with how much satisfaction the college received the news that Harry Keyes was at New London to help in the final days of preparation. If after all the discouragements in rowing this year, victory comes as a superb triumph against odds, the whole University cannot fail to be very grateful to these two men. Nor will our gratitude be entirely dependent on the out-come of the race. To Captain Vail and the rest of the crew, we wish the best success. It has been...
...account of the storm yesterday the Harvard - Yale base ball game which was to have been played at 3 o'clock was postponed until Saturday afternoon at 2.30. Although it had rained during all the morning, the managers of the teams in their conference at the Vendome failed to come to a decision about postponement. The Yale manager hoped it might be possible to play the game after all, and decided that Yale's answer would not be given until the team reached Cambridge. About two o'clock the men arrived ready to play but it was raining so hard...