Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor of Comparative Pathology, to serve from September 1, 1896; electing Charles Herbert Moore, A. M., Professor of Art and Director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, to serve from September 1; appointing Lewis Jerome Johnson, A. B., C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, and Comfort Avery Adams, Jr., S. B., Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, both for five years from September 1; reappointing Daniel Lawrence Turner, C. E., instructor in Surveying and Hydraulics, from September 1; reappointing the following instructors for one year from September 1: William Vaughan Moses, S. B., in Drawing and Mechanical Designing; Walter...
Professor James gets at the heart of his theme by an imaginary reasoning with a fellow-mortal who is on such terms with life that the only comfort left him is to brood on the assurance "you may end it when you will." Ordinary Christians reasoning with would-be suicides, have little to offer them beyond the usual negative "thou shalt not." Professor James goes on to show the means whereby the suicide may actually be made to see that in spite of adverse circumstances life is worth living still; and his final appeal is to nothing more recondite than...
...Comfort, b. Lester...
...Comfort, b. Adams...
Bowling analysis-Haverford, Clark 174 balls, 12 maidens, 6 wickets, 42 runs; Dupont, 81, 4, 3, 37; Hastings, 44, 4, 0, 10; Lippincott, 31, 0, 1, 28; Comfort, 18, 0, 0, 9; Clark, 8, 1, 0, 4; Dupont, 6, 1, 0, 0. Harvard, Hinchman, 30, 0, 0, 25; Alsop, 60, 2, 0, 25; Adams, 72, 3, 5, 25; Mifflin, 41, 0, 3, 11; Mifflin, 36, 0, 3, 32; Lester, 42, 1, 5, 13; Hinchman...