Word: repays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from a certain amount of drudgery, no matter what the spirit may be which prompts them to sacrifice their own pleasure. The rest of the college leave Cambridge for a week of enjoyment. These few remain for hard, conscientious work, and we hope the result of their labor will repay them for their abstinence. Certainly the college owes them a word of thanks and an expression of their appreciation...
...radical ideas, we must all acknowledge that his conception of the relations of all matters, spiritual and physical, and his views of life and duty are the product of one of the deepest minds of the age. The article is well written, abounding in quotations, and will fully repay a careful reading. "Gottfried Seumer - a Poet among the Hessians," by Dr. Conrad Bierwirth is a very interesting article. Its attraction consists not so much in the information about the poet as in his interesting historical connections and his strong personality. Seumer was the son of a poor...
...greater success than they did last year, and the attendance has been encouraging in every way. There is still a pressing need of volunteers to take part in the singing and help in other directions. It is a very philanthropic object, and the success of these services would surely repay any little work that one can do for them...
...exceptionally good reproductions of country and sea scenes as well as familiar pictured of college athletics and buildings. They have been hung with care and judgment and the total effect is very good. The club has shown commendable enterprise in arranging such an artistic exhibition and it will well repay one to attend...
...whom a realization of this debt of gratitude is brought home, begins to wonder how he can ever repay this obligation. If he went to the previous generation of men from whom part of his benefits had come, and if he should ask them what he should do even to begin to pay back all he owes, they would tell him not to consider the debt as standing against them, but to transfer it with interest to the generation about to come after. Most men are not in a position where they can give very much at once to their...