Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent issue of the Yale News, a communication was published which set forth the fact that a larger number of Exeter men were coming to Yale than formerly, and says Exeter's "change of feeling in favor of Yale should by all means be encouraged...
...Society will be held in Sever 6. There has long been a necessity for something of the kind here, and the committee which was appointed at the large and interested meeting, three weeks ago, must have surely decided on an interesting enough plan of action to attract even a larger audience at Sever to-night. The fact that Mr. Cohn is the mover in this new enterprise answers for its success; - in fact the French department never seems to do anything unsuccessful. We have heard it whispered about that perhaps lectures or addresses by distinguished Frenchmen will be found among...
...narrow life to the great human world by which it was surrounded. The years have brought perpetual enlargement. That narrowness and specialness of the 17th century Puritanism, has shown how healthy it was, even in its separation, by the capacity which it has developed to bind once more with larger human life, and make itself more and more truly human...
...this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer and more gracious meaning. It may signify, we believe that it does signify, the partial gradually reconciling itself to the universal; the temporary little by little fulfilling itself with the eternal. There was a discipline of the Christian Church larger than the discipline of the Puritans, in which the discipline of the Puritans had floated as the part floats in the whole. The discipline of the Puritans felt that which was pressed on was tempted by it, and at last broke open in the attempt to find it. Experience...
...clear. How can we better close than with these words out of the same epistle to the Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast into the end." There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever...