Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That this committee shall have full power over all matters relating to athletics and athletic contests, subject to such general regulations as the college faculty may from time to time adopt. It shall present two written reports each year to the faculty...
...traced the similarity between the temptations of Christ as He was entering on His ministry and those of a young man just beginning his active life work. Christ's temptations were real struggles, not supernatural manifestations. They arose not from His human weakness but from His sense of power. He felt himself a king and was tempted to claim His kingdom. Should He use His power for himself or for the world? On His decision rested the future. He chose the noblest, the best course, and became a minister unto men. Then there was proved the law of the sovereignty...
...temptations of a young man choosing his life work also arise from his sense of power. Shall he choose that life which brings most comfort and ease to himself, or that in which he can best serve his fellow men. The address to the graduating class was an earnest appeal to choose the life of selfdevotion...
...Tuesday will be the meeting of the alumni in Alumni Hall; an address on "Medicine" by Professor William H. Welch, M. D., of John Hopkins University; the anniversary exercises of the law school, with an address by Justice Matthews of the United States Supreme court, on "The Judicial Power of the United States;" the Yale-Harvard championship base-ball game at the Yale field; the Glee Club concert at the Hyperion; and at the same hour, the anniversary exercise of the Sheffield scientific school in North Sheffield Hall...
Those present provided for an executive committee similar to that of the '88 management, to consist of the conductor, the president, the leader of violins, and two others, who shall have the power of trying and electing candidates, subject to the ratification by the entire society...