Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...natural to prefer your fellow club or society mate to an "outsider." But if the "outsider" outclasses your friend as an oar it is a college crime to reject him. Still with all I have heard of the methods of selecting crews at Cambridge I have no fear of the crew. Indeed "the finest crew Harvard ever put on the water" has become quite as familiar to us of late as have defeats...
...have made this hasty review in order to show that the College Conferences have in past years been of value. In approaching the point of our editorial we fear that we shall be misunderstood. We maintain that the series of lectures given this year is not of the nature that is demanded by the College Conferences. We think that the present course should have been given by itself, and not have forced out the regular Conference series, which we have missed this year particularly, during the present discussion of questions of college policy. The present course is very valuable...
...understand that the plan proposed will not influence the present standard of American scholarship, we do not intend to argue that we fear for the reputation of our college...
...something greater than the discoveries of science, greater than Providence.- the direct relation of our souls to Gad. In this sense there is also a meaning in the words "stand up on thy feet." The whole teaching of the gospels is to come bravely and humbly for repentance. Fear of God does not need to be a sorlid fear but an honest and inspiring awe. Fear of God is the beginning but not necessarily the end of wisdom. Jesus Christ as well as the old Jews taught a manly religion; "though He slay me, yet will I trust...
...always have doubts in anything that we attempt, and when the end of life comes. surely there must be in the consciousness of every man the fear that he has not taken the advantages of the best gifts of God. By believing God's power is in our experiences, we must force them to elevate our souls. We must wrestle with them till they have given us all they have to bestow on mortal lives...