Word: sought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...society in Sheff. On just what lines the society will be formed is not yet known. It is certain, however, that eligibility for membership will not be based wholly upon past work, but general ability will also be a requisite. Hence membership can hardly fail to be a much sought for honor. The following committee from the class was elected to act in conjunction with a committee from the Faculty to look into the matter with power to act: J. W. Roe of Brooklyn, I. W. Greer of Central Village, Conn., and F. E. Newton of Buckingham, Conn...
...column brings out one point which can not be too strongly insisted on. The rules of football can not be held to blame for the abuses which are the chief cause of outcry against the game today, and the final remedy for these abuses is accordingly not to be sought in any amendment of the rules. This does not mean that no such amendment should be attempted: far from it. Much may unquestionably be done by a strict enforcement of more severe rules, to prevent the recurrence of the most objectionable features of ungentlemanly football. The fear of penalties will...
...Gruener, who furnished this translation, thinks he sees a political motive in this fiction, and is of the opinion that the papers printing such reports were misled by those who sought thus to influence the popular mind against the introduction of American and English athletic sports, which the Emperor favors...
...lives in God and God in him. The "life indeed" is something that cannot be lost. Death is but an end of the visible life, what we might call the picture of life, but the life indeed is in Christ and is eternal. This eternal life is what is sought, or at least it is the chief object of study, in all colleges. Mere knowledge amounts to nothing beside the possession of true life. So what we are looking for in college is the truth of God, that having found it we may know Him and live...
...Winchester Donald spoke of the services of the University preachers as pastors. The religious life of the University, he said, would never be all that it was intended to be, nor would the work of the preachers be all that it ought to be until they should be sought by the students in their office of college pastor. He showed that this duty was the happiest part of the preacher's duty. That it was a misconception to suppose that only those students who intended to be ministers could profit by the opportunity of meeting the University preachers personally...