Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...library as common property. The removal of any of them, and it is always the most important works that are taken, means that hundreds of men are robbed of privileges which belong to them. It is barely possible that some one may have taken these books without realizing the real gravity of the offense; such a man would, of course, return them immediately upon being made to understand what inconvenience his selfishness causes. If the books are not returned immediately it will mean that the offender took the books with the full understanding of the character...
...good, were supposed to walk the earth. Slowly, as Scandinavia yielded to the influence of Christianity, Iceland followed. While Denmark and Sweden owed their conversion to German missionaries, Norway and Iceland owed it to their own people. Olaf sent the first missionaries to Iceland, and Christianity began its real work there in the year 1000. The erection of churches was left to individuals and not to the State. The priests stood outside of the political life and formed an unattached community, and their influence was unfortunate on the relations between the aristocracy and the commons. From 1151 the spirit...
...brilliant individual players who ever wore foot ball suits. The working out of this problem has been a process of the most fascinating interest, and has been followed from day to day by the college with close sympathy and keen appreciation of its difficulties. The results accomplished demonstrate the real nature of the athletic revival which has taken place at Harvard; they show that the best elements of Harvard life are in our athletics. Such work as has been done this year is its own crown. Victory can add something, but is not essential to the satisfaction we derive from...
...pictures are given us, - of the enthusiastic, ideal-loving, lero-worshipping youth of twenty-one, and his ideas upon things in general - and of this same being become a man of twenty-five, cynical, fearlessly and honestly mundane and selfish, in theory and in practice, - who prefers his own real advantage to deference to a sentimentality that seems to him absurd...
...need much help from wise men who study and know God Himself, if we are to learn what God's desire for the future of the world is. Among these great men none is more important to study than Christ. We must try to find by patient study the real nature of Christ's power...