Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Governing Boards and Faculties of Harvard:--The master of Emmanuel once put the sentiment of collegiate solidarity, the keynote of this occasion, into the form of the paradox, 'Let us stick together when we part.' In expressing the thanks of the Delegates for the most cordial welcome you have given us, may I not adopt these words in behalf of the Delegates from all parts of the world? 'We shall stick together when we part.' In whatever parts of the planet we may happen to meet, the first greeting for any two of us will be 'We were at Harvard...
...essay "The Daemon of Poetry" has given us what perhaps is more unusual, a suggestion of the visions that are sometimes granted to our prosaic souls and that are the life of poets. The essay is very delicate, often subtle, and withal simple. "Chesterton and the Philosophy of Paradox," by L. Simonson '09, is very thoughtful but not thoroughly worked out. The author has not given Chesterton, the whole man. He recognizes the value, critical and philosophical, of many of Chesterton's paradoxes, but is inclined impulsively to give equal importance to all, including those which are mere exercises...
Mathematical Conference. A Paradox on Incommensurable Numbers. Mr. W. R. Ransom.--Geometrical Properties of Lines of Force. Mr. W. H. Roever. Sever...
Mathematical Conference. A Paradox on Incommensurable Numbers. Mr. W. R. Ransom.--Geometrical Properties of Lines of Force. Mr. W. H. Roever. Sever...
...which we must strive to resolve into a perfect unity with God himself. We must give up the things of this earth and all self-seeking purposes, if we are to attain this unity. As Jesus has said, "He that loseth his life shall find it," and in this paradox is the solution of the problem. But the bare knowledge of this is not the way of salvation. By acts and faith alone can we attain the salvation of that which is most precious, the soul...