Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish for help that their lives may be more successful, and who do not know that they need more point than they have to make their lives succeed. Few men, indeed, who do not in every day turn aside from mere grinding or mere play to ask what life is for, and how it can be made better. Let more men determine to meet here when the bell rings for chapel, that together they may meditate and resolve and together they may ask the God of all strength to help them through; and the daily chapel service takes...
...Peabody chose for his text a part of the fourth chapter of St. Matthew's gospel, the subject being "The Temptation of Christ." He traced the similarity between the temptations of Christ as He was entering on His ministry and those of a young man just beginning his active life work. Christ's temptations were real struggles, not supernatural manifestations. They arose not from His human weakness but from His sense of power. He felt himself a king and was tempted to claim His kingdom. Should He use His power for himself or for the world? On His decision rested...
...temptations of a young man choosing his life work also arise from his sense of power. Shall he choose that life which brings most comfort and ease to himself, or that in which he can best serve his fellow men. The address to the graduating class was an earnest appeal to choose the life of selfdevotion...
...every three hundred inhabitants. At first view this seems very discouraging, but the situation has many compensations. So many are unwholly unfit or badly prepared that while they increase the miseries of mankind they add to the business and profits of those who are capable. The competitions of modern life have become so keen that there are no opportunities for the lame and lazy. The first must find their proper pursuits, and the second must work or go to the wall...
...PALMER.CLASS OF '88.- The class secretary earnestly requests '88 men to fill out and deliver the class life blanks before leaving Cambridge. The completeness of the first secretary's report depends upon their receipt...