Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lyman Abbott closed his first term of service among us Thursday morning. His stay in Cambridge has been a source of unalloyed pleasure and profit to the students. He has entered into the life of the university, and in a short time has made himself thoroughly a part of it. His coming in the future will always be looked forward to with the liveliest pleasure. Owing to Dr. Abbott's departure on Thursday, Dr. Brooks conducted prayers Friday morning, and will continue in charge of the chapel services during the next three weeks. It is always a pleasure to welcome...
...Satan and urged that Christ's example of fortitude be followed by every student. He declared that vanity and ambition were two faults especially to be avoided by students in a large university, and it was only by the most strenuous efforts that each student could live the life which looks to noble men for approbation. After the address the Glee club sang Shelley's "Hark, hark my soul," and the benediction was pronounced. The musical features of this service were especially noteworthy...
...said that there is no really known figure of Socrates, yet from the symposia of Xenenhon and Plato we are enabled to gain some idea of his face with its rolling lips and peculiar nose. Socrates was born in 464 or 465 B. C. and died in 399. His life was contemporaneous with the age of Pericles and the Peloponnesian war, and it was in this war that he showed his sturdy constitution which enabled him to endure hardships and even excesses without detriment...
...little music, and gymnastics. These were not sufficient for an education, so before the middle of the fifth century, a class of men sprang up which gave extra instruction. These were called Sophists, or, as Professor Sidgwick calls them "professors of rhetoric and art of conduct." Their whole life was spent wandering about from town to town imparting knowledge by means of lectures and long discourses to those who would pay. Socrates' life was diametrically opposite to this; he did not go about but stayed at home, he received no compensation for his instruction for he considered it a desecration...
...first Vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon in Appleton Chapel. These services have steadily grown in popularity since their inauguration, and it is because they fill a distinct place in the life of the university. The services will always appeal strongly to the students for many reasons. They come at a very convenient hour, at the close of the day's work, and do not interfere in any way with the regular duties of the day. They are conducted by men whose very names are sufficient assurance that the services will always be interesting and practical...