Word: purely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...give you something, who uplift and strengthen, who are in fact above you in an intellectual way. Young men do not carry their imaginations far enough forward into the future. They should realize what is to be expected of them and develope themselves mentally and physically to be pure, honorable and all honor to the college...
...Cynics played an important part at this time. Their bravery and constancy won for them the respect of all. They resemble in some respects the modern anarchists except in relation to God. Their pure deism rebuked the polytheism of the age, and their asceticism did much towards shaping the hermit life and the monastic system of later times...
Although out a few months among us, Adelbert Shaw had drawn to himself a wide circle of friends. We, who know him best, loved him more and more as we learned to know his noble character. Strong in his aims and pure in his life, we mourn him as a brother. In our meetings, his earnest words and simple prayer of faith impressed us all as the deep feeling of one who walked with...
...endless life or the meaning of immortality. Immortality, he thought, is the highest motive force of life for righteousness. But he was careful to have it understood that it is not the only motive; immortality might be taken away and still the motives of self interest, of pure happiness, of wisdom in preference to folly would remain. Immortality may even become a harmful motive,- that is when it is sought selfishly...
...college gives to President Eliot the same cordial welcome home which he received from all Harvard's loyal sons in the West. It was not for pure pleasure that he made his trip. It was largely to study, for Harvard's interests, the educational systems and institutions of the West, and to note any improvements in general educational methods. It was clearly work tending to broaden Harvard's own interests and methods...