Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Life is in God's and his life is in ours. One of the points of difference between Jewish doctrine and that of the church of Christ was that in the former the necessity was imposed of seeking the spirit by pilgrimages to some appointed and perhaps distant spot; in the latter that He whom Christ called Our Father is ever and always with us, and we may everywhere accept his present love. Every word of the Lord's Prayer shows the nearness of Him to us. The real leaders of the church proclaim it to us. Distinctions of time...
...long standing; this year we would no longer make an exception, but go very far towards establishing a new practice. Yale's being admitted this year, means, practically, admittance every year. If we permit Yale to enter this race, the time does not seem to be very far distant when the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and others, will also partake in it; thus in place of the time-honored Harvard-Columbia boat-race, substituting an inter collegiate regatta, such as was held at Saratoga in '74, '75 and '76. All this tends to lessen the importance and interest...
...inferiority of his classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...
...where the dynamo can be placed with most advantage. It is necessary to avoid the noise which it would make, were it placed in the cellar of Gore Hall, and the expense of laying the wires will be increased by just so much for every yard the dynamo is distant from the building it is intended to supply. But this is a question which it will take but a very few days to settle...
...endeavors to emphasize, by means of more prolix English, that Emerson had us understand that in each man, and in himself alone, rests the influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell, not in some distant and far off mysterious land. Such writings, as long as there is room for improvement in human nature, as long as crime and ignorance exist, cannot help doing good...