Word: depths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-known, and liked by a large number of his class-mates, he led a very quiet life at college. His nature was not such as to form many intimate acquaintances; and it was reserved, therefore, for the few warm friends who knew him well to realize the wonderful depth and beauty of his character...
...because it was carried to such extremes by some, science nevertheless will always possess immense power over men's minds for its orderliness, depth, beauty, and above all for its authority. That chemical changes and mathematical equalities will always remain the same is, to the scientist indisputable. That this authority should be introduced into the moral and intellectual world is the wish of broad-minded men of the present day. As organic development has been achieved in the exact sciences so are its beneficial effects needed in the less tangible divisions. An organism of culture, in other words...
...depth of sorrow which pervades the college is unmistakable, and makes it unnecessary for us to urge attendance at the meeting in Holden Chapel today, which will be the only opportunity for a spontaneous expression of the feeling of the student body...
...other hand it may, and should, be the greatest of all helps to righteousness. It should bring conviction of the meaning of life, a knowledge of its significance. In all departments of life is this true. When properly sought it gives length to thought, breadth to duty, and depth to feeling. Immortality must be sought to be known as a fact. It is only when it is tried as a motive force that the meaning and power of the endless life can be known. The significance of Easter is that it offers every man another opportunity to make immortality...
...PITCH.The basis of music is the sensation of pitch. This is a generic sensation, like color, consisting of many elements which taken together form a continuous series between two extremes. With this continuum the spatial ideas of height and depth have come to be associated, for reasons derived both from the nature of the sensation and the conditions of its production at the two extremes. The sequence of different pitches presents itself to the mind as a movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness...