Word: command
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time was done for, and at the command of, the church...
...Academy of Natural Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania is preparing to make an expedition to Labrador. Mr. Hite, who is connected with the Zoological Department of the university, and who was naturalist on the Peary Relief Expedition is the leader, and Dr. Wetheril is second in command. The main object of the expedition is to see and locate the Grand Falls of Labrador, which are said to be the largest in the world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object of the trip is to gather collections of the fauna and flora...
...editorials of the Advocate which appears today ought to command the attention of all college men. The narrowness of the board walks and the misdemeanors of the freshmen in English A are unfortunate realities, but they are not new; the ungentlemanly behavior of certain men in the University chapel, however, is amore recent developement, and one which the Advocate does well to suggest should be promptly checked...
...failure to gain a right understanding of our relation to God is not a difficulty of sentiment, but of what we believe to be our best interest. We are afraid that, to profess Christianity, we must resign all hope of being successful in a worldly sense. Yet the command to the young man to give up his possessions was only incidental to the promise of eternal life. Christ knew that the young man's wealth would hinder him in a disciple's work. In the same way he requires us to abandon only what stands...
...large crowd at the Chapel last night found the curiosity which had prompted them to come soon changed to intense interest by the sermon of Protap Chunder Mozoomder. His bearing was impressive, and its effect was admirably borne out by his remarkable command of English. In forcible language, but with almost no reference to his notes, he delivered a sermon which will probably not soon be surpassed in the Chapel. He said...