Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...saying that if we could compare the parables with other forms of teaching we should see how beautiful were the ways in which Jesus taught. Jesus' parables were almost as brief as proverbs and as vivid as similes, thus allowing one to carry their meaning clearly in one's mind. There is nothing grotesque, nothing untrue in Christ's parables. A principle is taken and then is shown a case of its working. In a parable a fact stands solidly on its legs, it is a true story, not that it has happened in the past but because the very...
...hope that the faculty in taking their vote will bear in mind this preference of the great student body...
They have in mind, we believe, two schemes between which to choose. The first is, during the warmer months, say October, part of November, April, May and June, to have chapel exercises begin at 8.15 and recitations at 8.30; and to give only a half-hour at noon for luncheon. They propose in this way to gain the hour. During the winter months recitations would change back to nine o'clock and the hour would be gained, half at noon, as before, and half in the afternoon, by holding recitations till 4.30, a half hour later. Such is the first...
...tries to be better than his world must contend with the misgivings of his own heart, and with the opposition of his neighbors. The standard of the time is determined by three things: the special needs of special times; the power of reaction and the power of some dominant mind. These things, however, are but temporary, and the result is a widely varying standard of morality. Necessarily in our estimate of men we make allowance for the age they lived in, but the man who would rise above his time must make his own standard...
...weird and fantastic German folk-lore. The first page of the story reminds one of Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand." While the scene of the tale is faid in New England, the names of the characters, the incidents and peculiarities of treatment are entirely German, and bring to the mind's eye the "Black Forest" of Germany and the folk-tales which are its inheritance. Though the ending is almost too abrupt, the story on the whole is distinguished by a charming simplicity of style...