Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article which occupies the seat of honor in the November Monthly (the prose of which is unusually good) is by Paul R. Frothingham on "The Place of Mysticism in Modern Life." Its author considers Mysticism as that philosophy which enables man to seek through introspection to commune with the Eternal Spirit and receive divine illumination. After giving a short account of what the Mysticism has accomplished in past ages, he explains very lucidly the causes which have lessened its power at the present day and makes an earnest plea for this philosophy of the inner, the spirit world...
...weather has been hot and dry ever since the crew came here. In spite of the pleasant and comfortable location of the crew quarters, the men have to seek cool places in order to keep comfortable owing to the oppressive heat. But heat and sun do not keep the crews from their persistent work in the boat. Captain Perkins came back last Saturday and rowed a little with the crew that afternoon. Tuesday he took his place at No. 2 and did the full crew work. His arm is not quite well yet but is improving. The order...
...description of exterior features to bring about in the reader the effect of the antecedents of which this feature is the consequent. But as two persons are unlikely to be affected in the same way by a phase of life, the novelist to retain a leadership was obliged to seek novelty, what is rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal and deformed and entrenched himself there. The process is a psychological one and English writers have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes. But the tendency...
...much to predict sure success for the new department of instruction; a success, moreover, that will at once increase the number who will seek the advantages of the University, and that will make far more active the present functions of Harvard...
...annual dinners of the Harvard clubs. Of late years the custom of inviting to these meetings the men from Cambridge who are directly engaged in the development of the college has grown very greatly. Mr. Abbot has pointed out with what eagerness the members of these clubs seek for opportunities to keep abreast with the advancements being made in their own college; and of how much practical good for our University such meetings prove...