Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting on Thursday evening of men from other colleges who are at present working in the different departments of the university was very interesting; and the report submitted by the committee appointed some months ago to look into the moral and intellectual condition of the life here, coming from these men and at this time, is full of significance...
...years ago it would have seemabsurd for an undergraduate to think seriously of taking up music as a profession. Music was then considered to be rather an idle occupation, more like amusement than serious work, and the life of a musician did not present an attractive prospect. But of late years music has been more free from this stigma, and all the arts are meeting with public appreciation. A musician cannot become a rich man, but he may be a very happy one. Unless he has an independent income, he must do more or less teaching, and, indeed, ability...
...true that the six representatives of the alumni infuse considerable life into the board, but not enough to represent fairly a body of graduates so widely scattered throughout the country as are those of Yale. The alumni of Yale point to Harvard where the method of government embodies what they desire at Yale and they say that the results obtained from the method here, justify the placing of the government of a great institution into the hands of its representative graduates...
...hundred and fourteen divisions or suras. These are arranged arbitrarily, in the order of their length. The suras appeared at different times, as occasion demanded. They were not written by the prophet himself, but were taken down by some of his followers. They were not collected during Mohammed's life, but immediately after his death the caliph ordered them to be collected. Twenty years later this first collection was carefully revised, and what has since been the lawful edition was the result...
...observance of Easter day has always been kept. At a time when the christian would not even observe the day of the birth of Christ, the day of His birth and resurrection into immortal life was sacred. In our day we may observe the resurrection of Christ as an historical fact-he may be risen in our opinions, but not in our lives. We are apt to confound real life and real death. The truths of the New Testament are not always before us; we do not realize that we may be in the best of health...