Word: eager
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Grant was now eager to take the initiative. But Bragg was blind to the change in affairs and detached a strong force to attack Burnside in Knoxville...
What lesson does this forcibly bring home to us? Often the very best things we offer our fellowmen, our hardest efforts, our greatest work, go unappreciated by them. We set out to do something noble, something chivalrous, eager to be of use in the world, eager to give inspiration and power to a fellow soul. God inspired us to do this, and yet we find response only here and there. Under such hard conditions what would a brave man do? Have faith, work on and learn to wait. The truth will come and at any rate he will gain high...
...Christian Association held its weekly meeting last night in Holden Chapel. G. Gleason '97, spoke on "The necessity of cultivating the spiritual side of our natures." He said that there are many men in College who are eager to obtain facts, but who neglect the cultivation of that which will enable them to make good use of their knowledge. Men who have greatly developed their spiritual side are better men than those who are merely intellectual. This is shown by the fact that uneducated, but spiritual, men are a far greater power for good in the world than purely intellectual...
...especially fitting that young men who are seeking cultivation in orther things should learn the lesson, that things spiritual, more than all else, require gradual, painful progress; that religious development deserves eager effort. If such an effort is heartily made, the beauty and truth of God will bless the undertaking...
After choosing three instances, out of many that might have been chosen, Mr. Copeland dwelt at some length on the noble relation between David and Jonathan, and especially on the difficult position held by the son of Saul, between loyalty to his father and eager devotion to his friend. The whole Bible story of David and Jonathan was briefly retold and followed with the reading of the psalmist's lament, "How are the mighty fallen...