Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exactly two weeks from this morning the University will be facing its last day of grace before the annual deluge of mid-year examinations sets in. It is hard to realize that half of this year has already slipped away, and that we are on the home stretch of the first term, but the fact is only too true...
...first sight this seems to be only an other of labors propositions to be scorned by employers as entirely impracticable. It has, however, one saving grace perhaps two: the workers do not propose to seize private property by force; and they propose to take over plants now idle, not those making profits. In other words there is the recognition that capital and labor are partner. Labor simply asks to be allowed to demonstrate that, if its partner falls, the partnership can be dissolved without loss to itself. If it succeeds in proving the truth of the assertion, the employer will...
...conception of the character of Mme. Morelli was admirable, but its rendition by Helen Ware was supreme. It is the height of acting when a personality crosses the footlights. Miss Ware not only achieved this, but achieved it with a grace and poise which have seldom been equalled. Who would not be a "Pagan...
...admirable ease and grace of the narrative as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed make "The Vicar of Wakefield' one of the most delicious morsels of fictious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read it in youth and age--we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."--Sir Walter Scott. Large quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Published at $20.00. Constable, Ltd., London. Special Price...
Some men are deterred from entering the ministry for fear that they cannot speak their minds out. That is a profound error. All that one needs is the saving grace of common sense, and he can say what he pleases. Some feel that the Church makes too much of theology. On the contrary it probably makes too little of it. A plain and positive teaching on the essentials of the Christian faith is what men are loking for and need. Others feel that the ministry does not offer them a fair and solid living. It is true that its returns...