Word: compassion
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...wide enough to compass him. This interest he expressed in language that was brilliantly his own. No man was quicker-witted; no man had thoughts more original or diction more picturesque. He was ardent, combative, filled with poetry and romance, instantaneously responsive in his feelings. "I hold it," he said, "a part of my business to do what I can for every wight that comes to this place"; and thousands of men bear witness that this was the truth. No teacher in Harvard University within my recollection has roused so many minds or touched so many hearts...
Harper's--"The Mariner's Compass," by S. Newcomb S. '58; "The University of Athens," by C. F. Thwing '76; Editor's Easy Chair," by W. D. Howells...
...Harvard will be represented by members of the Faculty and others. This is the first year of the Convocation Week which is set aside by all universities and colleges of the country for meetings of American Learned Societies. It extends from December 27 to January 3, and within this compass, nearly all the conventions will be held...
...power of Christ came, first, from his unwavering devotion and obedience to the will of God. Men of strength who acknowledge no higher strength, men of genius, who do not acknowledge the superior wisdom of God, do not lead men but repel them; only those who point, like the compass needle, unchangingly to a pole where lies all power and influence are those who direct and guide the world. Jesus Christ by a standard of right above and beyond himself was able to point men to ideals and attainment, higher than their own and was able to make them follow...
Three courses of practical work were carried on this summer, an elementary course in plane surveying and two advanced courses in railroad and geodetic surveying. The freshman course, covering the full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...