Word: folding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last speaker was P. C. Hoyt 4G., the president of the Graduate Club, who addressed the men on the purposes of the club. He said they were two-fold--that of instruction, and for the advancement of social life. The social life was the point he dwelt on, as this modifies the tendency of the advanced student to stay most of the time by himself...
...Brown writes of his character charitably but without bias; he does not attempt to diagnose his faults or condone his vices, but he does not dwell upon them with distorting emphasis. The Creek and Seminole wars, the battle of New Orleans, the history of Jackson in politics are entertamingly fold and one comes partly to understand that influence which he held over so many in his time, and which softened even his enemies, to their consternation...
...used the word "Baptism" always in its spiritual significance,--"I have a baptism to be baptized with." "Can ye be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" But He sanctioned its use before His ascension, emphasizing the point that it was to be in the three-fold name, and to be accompanied with Christian instruction. It is the sacrament of incorporation, of cleansing and of a new birth, which must issue in new and cleanly surroundings, outward as well as inward...
...dares. . . . For there be two Jinn, two slaves of the lamp, that serve the Republic. One, the nimbler and the more intelligent, is best employed in the care of its material interests, its bodily welfare. The other, a turbulent, huge, and mighty demon, guards with ferocious jealousy the two-fold liberty which is its soul...
...work of the Harvard Christian Association during the coming year will be two-fold, and will consist of the study of the Bible in courses conducted by able leaders, and of philanthropic work in Boston and Cambridge...