Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glory of man that he may know God. Nature shows God, but some men do not see any divine agency, because God is not in them. They have schooled themselves not to see, and so they will remain, forever, in the dark. When the voice of duty is no longer heard, then the soul is dead, although the understanding may remain. The sin of to-day is the insensibility to spiritual life. Men are asking whether life is worth living, but the souls of such men are dead. "What profits it a man if he gain the whole world...
...further the cause. The lecturer then discussed the educational and political aspect of the prohibition movement. Life insurance companies take cognizance of a man's habits in drink. The total abstainer obtains better terms than the moderate drinker. The question of total abstinence is answered, and there is no longer any discussion upon the subject that adds anything new. We can tolerate elderly men who take their wine, for they were brought up under an old regime, but there is no excuse for a young man who drinks. After dwelling upon the injurious effects of alcohol upon the heart...
...Harvard Magazine." Nearly all of its first editors have since attained prominence. The class of '55 was represented by F. B. Sanborn, C. A. Chase and Phillips Brooks, while J. J. Jacobsen, J. B. Greenough and E. F. Fisher were chosen from '56. "The Harvard Magazine' had a longer life than any of its predecessors, and did not go under until its tenth year was passed, when indifference on the part of both editors and subscribers alike caused it to cease publication...
...been learned and that ponderous articles would be eschewed. Among its more famous editors were C. C. Felton, later professor of Greek and president of the University, George S. Hilliard and Robert B. Winthrop. Many articles of real literary merit appeared in its pages and it deserved a longer period of existence than it enjoyed. But indifference on the part of its contributors made its continued publication impracticable, and it died in 1828, about a year and a half after its foundation...
...flooding would be small. The apparently serious objection has been made that if such a scheme as that proposed should be adopted, the open air practice of the Mott Haven team, always begun of necessity much later here than at other colleges, would be thereby delayed for a much longer time. But the ground is of a very porous nature, and may be readilydrained; then, too, the field of course would not be flooded after the final thaw began. Therefore, the two objections urged against the plan are of very small weight. But in favor of such a plan, there...