Word: exoduses
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...number of men who, from some reason or other, wanted to skip Monday and Tuesday, and go home on Saturday if not earlier. It would have made very little difference, except in principle, if only a very few men had gone home early, but this year the exodus was so general as to cause a good deal of interference in the teaching of some of the courses. This, of course, was hurtful to the college. The authorities must see that a certain amount of instruction is given, and anything that interrupts or interferes with the course of this instruction cannot...
...third chapter of Exodus, where God speaks to Moses from the burning bush He expresses a great truth in saying that He is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. These three men were of very different types. Abraham was a leader of men and his faith in God was great. Isac was a plain "everyday" man and does not seem to have seen visions. And yet his trustfulness is seldom duly appreciated. If Abraham was faithful in his willingness to sacrifice his son at God's bidding. Isaac was also trustful in giving...
...Phillips Brooks preached an eloquent sermon last evening from Exodus 14; 30. "And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore." He said that we all had an Egyptian-some passion of the mind or body and that we should all endeavor to get rid of it and leave it dead behind us. Many would say that they had not the power nor the strength to destroy the ruling vice. The speaker then said that nothing was apparently more significant and really more insignificant than men's knowledge of themselves. If men would only try, they could do many things...
...chapel of the school, 48 Quincy street, on the following evenings of March and April: March 11, The Story of the Creation; March 18, The Garden of Eden; March 25, From Eden to Noah; April 8, Abraham and his Descendants; April 15, Joseph in Egypt; April 22, the Exodus: April 29, The Tabernacle and Sacrificial Worship. The lectures will begin at half past seven o'clock. The public are invited...
...practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great western half of civilization might at least...