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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today, however the demand usually comes in a different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast amount of work needing to be done in the world which is and probably always will be unremunerative and which on that account offers an attractive opportunity to young men of wealth. There are few joys in life to be compared with sustained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON | 6/15/1908 | See Source »

...just because their very brilliancy makes them unwilling to undergo necessary mental drudgery. Again, a man's academic possessions interfere with his possibilities when they are accompanied by academic snobbishness which leads them to disdain the wisdom of intelligent but nonacademic persons. And thirdly, a man's intellectual possessions may be injurious to his mental possibilities if he allows what has been taught him to harden into formulae...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON | 6/15/1908 | See Source »

...while it also braces him for his chosen task. And so for their own sake and for the sake of the society in which they aim to be most highly useful members, college graduates ought to ally themselves with the church. But if their possessions of whatever sort they may be keep them from hearing and obeying Jesus's present call to loving discipleship, the tragedy of the text will be repeated in their lives and their noblest possibilities will be sacrificed. There can be no nobler ambition than, in the words of John Stuart Mill, "so to live that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON | 6/15/1908 | See Source »

Mansfield, who pitched against Harvard last year and was beaten both times, may be in the box today. He has had considerable success lately, while Dowd has been defeated on one or two occasions. It is undecided which pitcher will be used this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLY CROSS GAME TODAY | 6/13/1908 | See Source »

...University baseball team will play its second game with Holy Cross on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The first game, which took place at Worcester May 2, was very closely contested, and Holy Cross won by a 3 to 2 score. In that game Hicks faced Dowd, who did slightly better work than his opponent. The University team made six hits against eight for Holy Cross, but nevertheless batted hard most of the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLY CROSS GAME TODAY | 6/13/1908 | See Source »

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