Word: hides
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will admit as soon as any one that some vile stories greatly to the discredit of Aarvard have appeared in the papers, but I am absolutely sure that no Harvard man would lie about his college. The motto "Veritas," behind which the writer in the Graduates' Magazine would hide, is as dear to the student correspondent as to any other undergraduate, or to any graduate; and has, I contend, been as well upheld...
...gentlemanly feeling should surely prompt a student to more than common consideration of the just claims of his class-mates; yet it is precisely in the examination period that these claims are most flagrantly disregarded. The student who has neglected his work up to that time, has merely to hide a book or two, and he may shift the penalty for his earlier idleness in large part upon the more faithful members of a course...
...Crothers conducted the Vesper Service at Appleton Chapel, yesterday afternoon. He took as the subject of his sermon, the hypocrisy which people are so often guilty of, when they try to hide their best feelings and impulses, and to appear cynical and indifferent. This hypocrisy is, he said, much more dangerous than the deceit of a man who tries to be better than he really is. A man cannot divide his allegiance. God demands his whole heart and life...
...forms are necessarily and confessedly symbolic; they are representative of something other than what their mere outer appearance would suggest; thus it is only the spirit of the heart and soul which gives the Church and Liturgy their true signification. Until the symbols are explained, they serve merely to hide their true meaning. Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall of the unknown, without being able to affirm anything, he feels that there...
...shines like finely woven silk? The weeds cluster in the patches of earth at its foot, worms eat their way through every splinter, and where some particularly ugly old stump disturbs the eye a little bit of vine peeps gaily over the top and offers its services to hide this blot and leaves at its death a golden patch of color...