Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This expression of the life of service is Christ's test of character, his conception of life. The greatest man is he who does his fellow-man the greatest good. Christ did not measure men by their ceremonial observances. He never once told a man to offer a sacrifice. He simply said "Go and sin no more." His one measure of character was service. He who helped are apostate was in Christ's eyes greater than he who offered the most elaborate sacrifice. Service was the touchstone which Christ applied even to His own life. He lived simply that...
...department of engineering has decided to offer during the coming summer two voluntary courses on topographical, hydrographical, geodetic and railroad surveying. The work, consisting almost entirely of practical instruction in the field, will be conducted on the shores of Martha's Vineyard, about eight miles south of Vineyard Haven. The party will leave Boston on the morning of June 20 by rail to Wood's Holl, being transferred from there to the Vineyard. The work will continue until July 25th and will supplement the work done in Engineering 4a, 4c, and 4d. Further information may be obtained from...
...heart of his theme by an imaginary reasoning with a fellow-mortal who is on such terms with life that the only comfort left him is to brood on the assurance "you may end it when you will." Ordinary Christians reasoning with would-be suicides, have little to offer them beyond the usual negative "thou shalt not." Professor James goes on to show the means whereby the suicide may actually be made to see that in spite of adverse circumstances life is worth living still; and his final appeal is to nothing more recondite than religious faith...
...collecting money to pay all the expenses of the training table and the trip to New York, and has put a team into the field of whom Harvard has every reason to feel proud. The Mott Haven team is probably the strongest single track team that any college can offer this year. How it will acquit itself in a general competition with many institutions, is more doubtful, but we feel certain from the work of the athletes so far that every single man may be counted upon to do his level best, and this is the spirit that wins...
Professors Macvane and Hart offer Government 10 and 12; the first on the principles of government; the second on political methods in the United States...