Word: shaping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When we try to sum up his teaching in a formula it seems like the uttering of common places. He spoke of God as the loving Father, of religion as an answering love which tries to shape the life into conformity with the divine ideal, of duty as being fulfilled in love. In His teaching religion and morality were so interfueed, had become so undissolably blended with one, that they can not be severed even in our thought. Men sometime speak of the sermon on the Mount as though it were merely a system of ethics. Every word is transfigured...
...Lathrop, is of immense help to them when they come to run at college. This school training shows itself in two ways when the fellows come to college: first, there is a higher quality of athletics in the entering class and the material can be worked into first class shape in a shorter time; and second, more material is apt to present itself to be worked up. If the boys have run while in school, they will be much more apt to come forward as competitors in college, than if their attention had never before been called to running...
...students at Exeter have decided upon a school pin. There were fifty-four designs submitted and the one selected was drawn by Tiffany. The pin as chosen is to be one of sterling silver in the shape of a bar a little over a half-inch long and a quarter inch wide. The sides are finished in scroll work and the word Exeter in crimson enamel runs the length of the pin. The price of the pin is to be two dollars...
...Mechanical Engineering building in the Sheffield Scientific School the designs for which were prepared by a New York firm, has been rapidly pushed and the foundations are now completed. The building, situated between North Sheffield and Old Sheffield halls, is in the shape of a parallelogram 108 feet by 84 feet and with four stories. At the entrance is a semi-circular granite porch, supporting granite columns...
This year changes have been made in the tank, reducing the volume of water to be moved; changing the shape of oars, improving the facilities for coaching, and making little changes for the convenience and comfort of the men. The exertion required of the men to row even at a very slow stroke has always been a great obstacle to a successful use of the tank. The volume of water is now much reduced and is considered a great improvement. The size and shape of the oar blade has been experimented upon till the management has seen...