Word: learn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...make any sort of activity established as a university institution, two things are necessary,- first, the activity must be made of such a character as to merit general support, and, secondly, it must be conducted in practically the same way year after year, so that students shall learn to expect and to await its different events. The more change there is, the less well-known will be the institution. Where interest is small, it must be concentrated: if diffused, it will not make itself felt at all. A certain amount of interest, quite sufficient to make Yale debates a success...
...know nothing. But Paul says "now I know in part;" partial knowledge is not to be despised. Our light now is reflected light, but while it comes through a mirror and is imprefect, still what is reflected is none the less true light. The first thing we must learn about God is that we cannot know him perfectly. We must realize that reflected rays are often more useful than the direct. Where the direct light would dazzle or confuse, we may often learn much from the reflection. Thus an astronomer never looks on the sun directly, but through a darkened...
...members of the undergraduate body will learn with deep regret that advancing age makes it impossible for Professor Lane to continue active service after the present year. He is one of those men who have made Harvard famous as the centre of rich scholarship. One of the foremost Latin authorities of his day, he has won high regard in the greatest intellectual centres, not only here, but also in foreign lands. And yet his achievements have never been a barrier to kindly interest in students and all their activities, and his honest and practical sympathy has endeared him to numberless...
...correcting himself, that we shall be known of God. Greek and Jew alike are the sons of God, and God has put his spirit in them. First, Paul as the theologian tells us that we have this spirit because we have come to know God, that the more we learn, the better we know how to appreciate Him. He then seems to feel that there is something more, that back of all this knowledge or ignorance there is a fund of experience-a universal recogni...
...receive. Once the forces of nature were little utilized, but when man gave himself to them, that is to their study, they returned his pains a hundred fold. So to the husbandman the earth gives just in proportion as he gives himself to its cultivation. From this we must learn that we cannot gain anything without giving ourselves to it. We cannot become fine scholars or musicians without devoting ourselves to our work. In religion it is especially true that as you give so you receive. When a man thinks little of religion and never troubles himself to see what...