Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Some Conditions of Intellectual Life in America." Lecture. Prof. Norton, Divinty School Chapel, 7.30 p. m. The public are invited...
...Minister and the Child" is different from anything that has appeared in the Advocate for some time. It is no light story, it is not a criticism or an essay. It is a description of a man who is not in sympathy with life; in whose nature there is something wanting to complete his existence. There is an unsatisfied craving for a feeling he has never known. And now an event comes into his life which shows him what is lacking, and fills the void. He is a changed man; he has a new life, not that existence he knew...
...French revolution. Its boldness of thought and language startled the whole world. While reading it, Kant, the sage of Koenigsberg, was so fascinated that, for the first time, he forgot the walk which he had been in the habit of taking at a certain hour every day of his life. Through his labors gymnastics ceased to be the stock-in-trade of clowns and acrobats and assumed their wonted dignity and importance...
...crowned with equal success. In the meantime all official opposition to them ceased in Germany, and they were finally introduced into the public schools from the lowest to the highest grades in 1842, when Turner's societies, into whose organization the quickening genius of Jahn breathed the life and growth, were flourishing all over the country. Soon after this, physical culture won its way to recognition on both hemispheres as an indispensable part of sound education, and as a preserver of health and restorer of strength, and it has spread very rapidly. During the past twenty-five years due homage...
...methods of modern science and guided not by the lamp of observation alone but also by the light of physiological knowledge, will eradicate the seeds and blot out the remaining marks of mediaeval barbarism, and equip the members of the human family for the exigencies of the campaign of life and the demands of civilization...