Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sawyer, Sp. '94, is ill with a slow fever and has temporarily left college...
...work which the Union represents. The labor question is, after all, a question of personal training and discipline. The millenium is not to come by some great social revolution, but by the education of the mind and conscience of individuals. The work you are trying to do seems slow, and is not showy, but it is the real work after all. I wish you would tell the members of the Union of my constant thought of them. Say to them, please, that I think we are dealing with the social question in the most healthy, quiet and manly...
...selected, but it ought to be expected of a class so large as this that it could get a crew that would average more than 150 pounds, as is the present outlook. Several of the men who weigh well do not show much ability to row well. They are slow and very awkward - some of them, and must give their places to lighter and better men, unless they show greater improvement. Some of the men are doing very well, and show that we shall have a good light crew if obliged to trust to so little strength. Below...
...surrender of the best of life, but calls to the higher life when men would choose the lower. He asks for souls, to make them richer and nobler than they could even dream of by themselves, and He wishes to strengthen and beautify, not merely to possess. Men are slow to realize that this sacrifice which seems so hard is infinitely the greatest blessing, that it means the exchange of a life of care and misery for one of highest happiness...
...France and Germany and Spain as well as in Italy the mediaeval impulses had worn themselves out and these countries were not slow to accept the new movement and then the Renaissance became European...