Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles the people are described as placing the sick in the streets, so that the shadow of Peter might fall on them and heal them. The overflow from his goodness gave his mere presence the power of healing. An overflow of somewhat the same character comes from certain men or universities or towns, giving a ring to their names that puts them at once outside of the common pale. Their goodness runs out beyond themselves to everything connected with them. In the university, the whole body of students is prevaded by the spirit...
...wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...
...meeting room in which are the piano and large window seat; the library, where the valuable reference books and classics of the Institute library will be; the breakfast room and the butler's pantry. The kitchen is in the basement. Up stairs there are a secretary's room, overflow library, bath room and pool room. The latter will contain at one end the pictures and scores of the '92 teams; the rest of the room will be decorabed with various team pictures. It is hoped that as men leave college they will give pictures and other decorations to the club...