Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...means remarkable. The sketch which follows it, "The Race is not always to the Swift" is, 'o our way of thinking, the best contribution to the number. The story is well told working up to a good climax; the oaths are effective and our "pastry - faced" friend, "Algernon. Fitz-Jones" turns out a man. There is a liveliness and swing in the description of the race which is very attractive...
...brief directions. 1. Trust the office. 2. Come to the Dean and tell him if you are being treated unfairly. 3. Call during office hours or on Tuesday evenings at the Dean's house. 4. Read the regulations; and last of all remember that the office is your best friend, but "The man should seek the office, not the office...
...search for liberty, who moves in a world of irresponsibility, whose life becomes irregular and disorderly, never finds liberty till he attaches himself to some higher interest which swallows up all his smaller ones. He may find this higher interest through some teacher or some friend or in his own experience, but find it he must before he finds liberty...
...school he had a severe attack of pneumonia, the recovery from which left his lungs peculiarly weak. So sensitive were they that it was deemed best he should rest for the next year before entering college. In February, 1889, Battelle, in company with a brother and a friend, went to a place near Colorado Springs. The bracing air of Colorado seemed to improve his health, and in the fall of 1889 he entered Harvard College in the class...
There are several different forms of tolerance, but the best form, and that most to be striven for, is the one which, recognizing the largeness of truth, grants that our friend who differs from us, may have a glimpse of the truth, which, although not seen by us, is nevertheless truth. If we have a personal devotion to God, we shall find that the nearer we come to God, the true solution of the universe, the closer we are drawn to each other...