Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interested are cordially invited to come to the meeting of St. Paul's Society in 17 Grays every Wednesday evening. Rev. H. S. Nash of the Cambridge Theological School will talk to the Society...
...read as the lesson the sixteenth chapter of Hebrews. He said that nothing is more inspiring in the character of Abraham than his sublime faith. He then spoke of the reasonableness of our faith in God and what it means to us in this life and the life to come. So far from making us dissatisfied with the life here and long for the joys of the heavenly home, the truly-balanced mind will be affected just the other way, for faith teaches us that the life yonder has its beginning here, and everything to which we look forward there...
...thought whatever of competing, to enter. Men should not let timidity or distrust in their own powers keep them back. The success of the meetings depends in a great measure on a large field of entries the resulting competition. We especially urge members of the freshman class to come forward. If they are unsuccessful they will gain valuable coolness and experience for future contests...
...successfully for seven years, having sustained a very serious loss in the graduation of most of her team, seems to stand a very poor chance. Yale will surely take four firsts. Harvard, Columbia and U. of P. will each win two or three, while Princeton also will come in for her share...
...came to Harvard with the suspicion that it was a poor place for a religious man to come to. My Orthodox friends, both in the East and in the West, warned me of its moral atmosphere. But, after I had spent a half year at Harvard, during which time I made its moral and religious tone a study, I concluded that the fears of my friends were unfounded, and, furthermore, that their ideas had been distorted by such articles as the one written by Quest for the North American Review. Unwilling, however, to rest the matter on my own experience...