Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR: I have been thinking of late of going to Princeton to College. I am tutoring now at Cambridge, with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much for me. Now I have to have help wherever I go. I saw Bruny Willard the other day and he wanted me to write you he thinks P. is the place to go I have played fast [foot?] ball at Exeter for two years no doubt you have heard of me while...
...Knowlton L. Ames at Princeton. The only part of this letter-which is printed in full herewith-which can possibly be adduced as evidence in support of the charge against the officers of the Harvard Association, is the following extract: "I am tutoring now at Cambridge with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much...
...expense; I am talking to you with full confidence, Mr. Stickney, that if you do come down it will be to judge the question on its merits. I will be very glad to have you accept this invitation and shall do all I can to give you an idea of our life, We have had so many men down here already with athletic goods that I think it would he useless for you to come down solely to sell your athletic goods. Choose your own time for coming...
...market place, the temple to Athena, the library, the theatre, the temples to Trajan and Julian, the Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the great altar in which sacrifices were made. Views were also shown of the sculptures on the friezes of the different buildings, which are valuable as giving an idea of the implements of warfare used at that time. The sculpture of Pergamon lacks the grace and beauty which marks the higher period of Greek art. It is too huge and cumbersome, but displays energy and unbounded fire...
...thought and feelings, it is as old as creation. The Christian moral life was more aspiring and fraternal than the other religions which flourished in the first century; hence it was that it attracted followers so widely. One higher view which Christianity takes concerning men is the idea of fraternity of sinners, of the help and encouragement that should be shown brother men simply because they are sinners. As the emblems of Christmas are now seen, as the season of good will and peace to all men approaches, let Christianity be thought of as a blessing that is forever...