Word: fears
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prophet was trying to arouse the people to higher ambitions and a nobler life. He had reasoned with them, had spurred them with a fear of God's judgments, had fired them with a glimpse of the future and of the promises to those that seek the Lord. And then, in the text, he struck their sense of honor and loyalty by an appeal to the past. Their history though checquered had been an honorable one; their father, Abraham, had in the spirit of faith migrated to the west and settled in a new country. From small beginnings they...
...make them pay a heavy penalty for their dishonorable abuse of privilege. Students should themselves report any cases that came to their notice to the Library officials Men in whom so little confidence can be placed, are hardly to be reached in any other way than through their fear of severe official punishment, and this they certainly merit...
...crowd that gathered to listen to the Glee Club last night was but one proof of the very general interest in the evening concerts. There need never be any fear of a small audience during the examination period, for the men busy one day are idle the next. It can not be expected that the Glee Club alone can gratify them all. Two, or at most three, times a week is all they can fairly be asked to sing. On some of the other evenings the students would be well pleased to profit by the kindness of the Banjo...
...next spring. Most of her team will return, and the excellent work of the men this year promises well for the year to come. If the future captain is as thoroughly equal to his position as captain Bingham has been, and receives the same support, the college need not fear for the result...
...adopted four years with re-eligibility as an incident of the Electoral College; today they would probably favor the affirmative. The evils of the present arrangement are: use of office-holders by the president for political purposes as Harrison used them at Minneapolis; failure to veto bad bills for fear of offending a section of the party, as shown by pension legislation; impossibility of dignified or effective foreign policy with such frequent changes of officers; damage to business from uncertainty about legislation especially on the tariff caused by changes of party; in a word, instability and inefficiency in the government...