Word: earth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great pity that there were so few college songs on the programme and so much that was foreign to college life," adding, by way of remark, that "Harvard is in no way a representative American college or university. Her place is unique, there is nothing on earth quite like her." This paper adds that Yale "is not at all what an American college is." This kind of criticism is very encouraging, and needs no further elucidation. The great interest in Harvard which was re-awakened throughout the section of the country visited would be sufficient to repay everyone...
...last evening, taking his text from Nehemiah iv, 20. His discourse was to show the need of wisely directed effort in the Christian church; as the text has it "Where the trumpet sounds, resort ye thither." The judgement and appropriateness with which Christ acted during his active life on earth illustrates the point; while, on the other hand, the history of the church since that time shows the consequences of misdirected energies. Profiting by the experience of former generations the great work of the Church should be to preach Christ and Him cracified. Two great truths should be impressed upon...
...Little Journey off the Earth" by Mr. M. O. Wilcox savors considerably of Jules Verne. It is well written and in places amusing, but is inferior to most of Mr. Wilcox's work...
...perhaps the great fact is, the best value of any period of existence is not clear to us until we have left it. That is very often at once our sorrow and our consolation. We shall not know what this strange dear old earth has done for us until we stand on the far-off hill tops and walk by the river of the water of life. Therefore we dare to believe that the value of character and service which is behind all the lighter and weaker standards of college life is to come out more and more to college...
...character, and demonstration of his rights to higher recognition as a playwright than is generally accorded him. "The Philosophy of a Modern Frenchman" starts out with the assertion that a Frenchman has no philosophy. The writer evidently counts all Frenchmen as of the school of Richepin and de Maupassant, earth-bound and with only a mud roof...