Word: graces
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider all of you your duty to yourself, your country and to Christ...
...have been one of the features of the fall term. Two years ago they occurred on the seventeenth of October. Last year they were delayed on account of the anniversary celebration. Such things as baseball games have been known to be during October, but never until this year of grace has such absolute stagnation been seen in athletic matters. Besides the eleven, which we believe is working hard, although no one seems to care whether it does or not, and the freshmen baseball nine, there is nothing moving. "Nothing succeeds like success," it is said. We had better take...
...been urged, to be sure, against having any boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which was that no lady could with propriety witness the sport. Such an argument is, we may say, puerile; for a feather-weight match properly conducted is merely a display of dexterity and grace, attributes which our fair friends are especially quick to admire, and with justice as well. If any lady, however, is so weak as to be frightened or affected in any way by a contest which involves much less danger and physical pain than very many of those less conspicuous matches...
...acknowledge the grace with which our professors have contributed to our papers. But if their words are intended for larger circulation, college columns cannot carry them; the columns of the magazines are open to them, and it is a pity that the entire public should not through these columns get the benefit of them. Surely there is enough thought among the students to fill our college papers, and to spare...
...drawbacks are no more, and the helps no less in this age than in any other; the grace of God has never been kinder and stronger than it is now. It is a good time to live, to have noblest and purest ideals, to follow Jesus Christ, the leader of this age and all ages. "Now is the accepted time, and behold, now is the day of salvation...