Word: savings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...compelled to choose all of his work from the department in which he was registered, just as he does here at Harvard; now he can choose his work in any department of the University. Thus if a senior in the School of Arts intends to study law he can save an entire year by devoting his senior year to courses in the Law School. This, one of the New York papers says, means the same thing as a three year course, and the liberal policy which it indicates has caused much rejoicing among the students at Columbia...
...breath. At the time of the prophets the thinking men of all nations were engaged in an intense and almost vain struggle to grasp the idea of one God. Great minds, like Plato, rose at times to a clear monotheistic conception. But the people of all nations save one were wandering in the outer darkness of polytheism, with no apparent exit. To the Hebrews it was given, and to them alone, to arrive at the conception of a single Deity...
...fiction on the number begins with "The Cynical Miss Catherwaight." Her cynicism is not very prominent save in the title. The story begins well but modulates down into the dead commonplace. "Colonel Carter of Cartersvilie" is "niggery" but agreeable. "The Record of Virtue" is an interesting article of philanthropy working ignorantly. "A Pair of Old boys" by Maurice Thompson is excessively amusing. "Sister Dolorosa" is one of James Lane Allen's imaginings of gaunt Kentucky atmosphered mediaeval and European poetry. Stories by Joel Chandler Harris and Euzabeth Stuart Phelps complete the fiction...
Anthem, Praised be the Lord daily, Calkin; anthem, Save us, O God, Webbe; anthem, They that wait upon the Lord, Stainer...
...Bible is not an infallible guide,- it was never meant for that. For then people would never think for themselves. The book is not to save us from the trouble of living and thinking, but to inspire us to work for a spiritual revelation, to wrestle for the truth, and, by our own efforts...