Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members to a feast of which all partook. This was gradually set aside, until it became a sacrifice offered by a Priest on behalf of the rest. At the Reformation the true idea was only partially...
...which will be continued on Friday afternoons during the next three months, are designed to give students an opportunity to meet their instructors in a social way and also some of the wives of the members of the Faculty. It is hoped that men will drop in if they find that they have an opportunity, without necessarily having made any previous preparation...
...institution which society charges with the sole function of education, while the home and other institutions of society have many other functions. It is therefore the business of the school to cast the more or less vague desires of the community respecting education into definite aims, and to find, organize and administer the means through which these aims are to be carried out. But, in order that the school may really fulfil the function for which it is established, it must have the active co-operation of the individual home and of the community. Unless the work of the school...
...suddenly disappears the question confronts him "What can I do?" Is his ambition and ability for political strength, for a power in government, or do the activities and prizes of business seem nearer his grasp? The grandeur and dignity of both may well tempt him, for in both we find, on the whole, dignity, high moral sense, and a prevailing desire for what is best. One way, perhaps, to decide this question would be to have a "fellows conference" here in the University, where men could meet together and have opportunity for a more definite arrangement of their ideas...
These papyri have been for a long time in the hands of English scholars of Oxford and Cambridge who have studied them thoroughly and have made careful translations. They find among the manuscripts many of Homer's writings, poems by Sappho, some of Emperor Hadrian's letters and a portion of St. John's Gospel. Although this last is not supposed to be the original writing, it is known that it far antedates any of the codices from which the English version is taken...