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...village with my good family and a dog, where I could have my friends about me, and have a chance for godly living, to preach to them on God's day, bury their dead, baptize their children and comfort their sorrows. But that may not be. I must forego my plans for a rest and enter God's battle immediately...
Moreover, the cultivated man can ill afford to forego the lifetime pleasure of seeing nature with his eyes open. Ideally geology should be the avocation of every college graduate. During his daily walks, from railway train, steamer, or motorcar, he can see the earth evolving; he can see her majestic rhythms, her wonderful adaptations to life, her profound control over human history. Such permanent enrichment of life comes to the man who elects a full course in general geology. Thousands of Harvard graduates can testify to the truth of this statement. It must be remembered, too, that geology...
...favorite occupations, however, are fishing and hunting in both of which he is adapt. Although Mikkola likes America immensely, in this respect he maintains that it is vastly inferior to Finland. But he is willing to forego the pleasures of fishing and hunting for the other advantages which this country offers and intends to remain here in the future...
...fulfilled its promises and her expectations of four years ago, in every particular. She would hate giving up Atlantic and Harper's monthly magazines, Christian Century, Saturday Review of Literature, or the daily New York Times, but rather than to do without TIME, she believes herself willing to forego almost any two of the others in its favor...
...believes of holders of this degree that they have "wasted three of the best years of their lives and trent their minds into as tortured positions as Buddhistic fakirs bend their bodies." Mr. Marks says of the same person that "if he wants his doctorate in English, he must Forego knowledge in order to become a specialist." One is tempted to ask in what profession today the same is not the case. The inductive method has forced specialization upon the university, that and the knowledge that in generalizations of the Marks, Pingree variety are no approach to truth. The leader...