Word: master
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Taylor, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, England, and Vice-Chancellor of the university after January next, will preach at St. James's Church, corner of North Avenue and Beech Street, next Sunday evening. November 14, service commencing at 7.30. The public, the students of Harvard University in particular, are cordially invited to attend...
...Paris, and as time went on the power of the Chancellor was taken from him and put in the hands of this association. This revolution was effected with the aid of the civil authorities, who saw the value of the Universities more clearly than the Church did. The masters refused to accept any one given a license if he did not suit them. The initiation of the new master into the body of the masters consisted of a lecture and a dinner...
From this ceremony comes the collegiate use of our word Commencement, derived from the French word which was used to designate this initiation of a new master...
...becomes more and more to be not only the shoemaker and tailor, but also the man. If that broadening is not always going on he is not working faithfully. So every time, action in any sphere makes real the larger sphere in which we live. Long service of any master makes us feel the higher masteries and sets us free to serve them. The longer we live truly, in time the more we breathe the breath of eternity. The more largely we work in our speciality the more we enter into a sense of the divineness of all work...
...There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever more and more obeyed on even to the distant...