Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Clcero's Life and Letters...
...this responsibility. The student with a foundation of manliness cannot, except unjustly, be made to suffer for the student who if he is maintained now by an artifice system of props, will nevertheless fall as soon as he leaves colleges and is brought in contact with the world. Student life is supposed to be a preparation for the world, not a shield from it, and there can be no better element in this preparation than a feeling of individual responsibility...
...recent Day of Prayer for colleges, at Princeton a carefully prepared report was submitted in regard to the proportion of men in that college who are looking forward to entering the ministry as their life work after graduation. It is seen from the report that the proportion of men now purposing to devote themselves to the ministry is much smaller than the average of former years. The year in which was the highest per cent. of men entering the ministry was 1871 when it is recorded that 34 per cent. of the whole number of men in college entered...
...Clcero's Life and Letters...
...duty and to urge us tonobler ends if we will but listen to Him. Many are deaf to the call, however, and therefore it is our duty to proclaim His presence and love, to proclaim it not merely by words but by the example of an unselfish life...