Word: ever
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least honest, and virtuous, and Christlike. No man can stand in the truth who says there is no God. If he wants proofs of God's existence let him not seek them in theology; let him rather read the book of his own life. If ever in following his own desires he has done a just, a kindly act, he can find in that, evidence of God; for justice and charity are divine attributes. In society, politics, science, poetry, we see the same truth made manifest, - if the heart be not right, if the life be not pure, each...
...number of books circulated in the library in the month of November exceeded that of the same month last year by 2000 volumes. The number of reserved books taken out is between 2200 and 2300 volumes, - more than were ever used before in one month...
...about, and why Dr. McCosh couldn't have eaten his dinner in peace as the boys do in the old refectory - if that blessed old refectory is still in the land of the living, and then we turned one to another and said: "None of us ever heard of Edwards stamping his iron heel. In our days we could hardly hear the patter of Dr. McLean's gum shoes...
...just here on the part of Princeton laymen we would ask Dr. Holmes, when he is in good humor at his breakfast table, to explain to us how he can expect a dry creed ever to learn anything. A creed is a belief. How can a belief learn to be anything but a belief? As for Harvard being able to burn up the old beliefs, we doubt it. The truth is she is attempting to do so, and, unfortunately, giving us nothing in their place. - Mobile Register...
...half an hour later the Harvard team strolled on to the floor, ready to show what it could do. Foremost among the tuggers was J. H. B. Easton, the "biggest anchor any team ever had," as an enthusiastic soldier remarked who was trying to place $10 against $5 that Harvard would win. He has tugged seven times in that hopeful capacity, and only once has Harvard had to yield the victory. The other members of the team do not compare well with Easton in size of body, but they are scholarly, toughened young men, and each one good...