Word: silently
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Behind the Bible stands Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Christ makes the Bible what it has been to man and without him it sinks to the level of the world's literature. Our faith rests not on the silence of the critics, for they are never silent, but on the Christ who is revealed to us, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path...
...them corrected. The very habit of expressing ones opinion before others is of itself an exceedingly valuable thing, but it is a habit rarely found in college men. It is easier to take things for granted than to ask about them; it is much less humiliating to be a silent fool than to advertise ones folly; yet the silent fool must continue in his folly while the other becomes wise. If the student would put away this childish reticence some of the courses which are now characterized as dry-as-dust would become much more interesting and much more profitable...
Best general references: G. W. Cable, The Silent South. H. C. Lodge in Cong. Rec. 1889-90 pp. 6538-44. Forum, V. p. 517. (July...
...This deprivation is an evil. Contemporary Review, LIII. p. 465 (Mar. 1888.) Forum, V. p. 517. Cable's Silent South, p. 16.- (a) For the South; bad moral influence of a violation of the Constitution. (b) For the North: disproportionate representation. (c) For the Negro: loss of the educating influence of citizenship...
...open with many cheerful prospects and then to prove bitterly blue and sad at the end. It may be bold, but we venture the suggestion that if every man in this University made up his mind to keep himself and his friends cheerful for the whole year, to be silent about things which he did not understand and to give the team captains credit for right motives and sound judgment we should see a year successful in every way. The CRIMSON cordially welcomes every man and only suggests that we shall be much better friends to each other...