Word: salt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Willis Sylvester McCornick 1900, of Salt Lake City, substitute fielder. He was pitcher and outfielder on last year's Freshman nine and prepared at Johns Hopkins. Age 21, height 6 ft., weight...
...Henry Van Dyke of New York, delivered the baccalaureate sermon to the Senior class in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, taking for his text, Matthew 5; 13, "Ye are the salt of the earth...
...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
Among the poor and wretched, in respectable society, in business, forces are at work about which it is not enough to say, "Touch not the unclean thing." On the contrary we must touch it, as salt touches decay, to check and overcome...
...received but little attention from botanists. Many speciamens from California, have been sent by Professor W. L. Jepson of the University of California and Mr. J. W. Congdon of Mariposa, California. An extremely interesting collection, including many critical specimens, has been contributed by Professor Marcus S. Jones of Salt Lake City. The entire collection now contains over 27,-000 specimens, the result of over sixty years of continuous growth...