Word: soule
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unbounded thanks for its assistance to our R. O. T. C. last year; we are doubly grateful for its kindness in sending us Lieutenant Morize. In so doing the French are showing that they expect much of us; our only way to thank them is by cooperating heart and soul...
...nations has been that there are always enough chaplains. Their further experience has been that chaplains consume about as much canned marmalade and bully beef as those whose tastes are presumably more bloodthirsty. In a pinch, when face to face with necessity, a man can pray, or consign his soul to eternity without the aid of a trained intermediary...
...have some part in the spiritual commonwealth for which all else is little but a scaffolding. This does not mean that a knowledge of Latin declensions is a natural right. But it does mean that each human being should have some means of expression, some way of inviting his soul. Many different arts and crafts and sports may furnish these means. Any system of education which leaves them out is narrow and pedantic. Such a system must fail just as the so-called classical education has failed...
...autumn there are the big games, in the winter debutante balls, and in the spring there is rowing and Revere. All such sports, indoor and outdoor, have their uses. But like many other things, they are temporary. The Crescent Garden will not suffice the ingenuous student's soul in January; nor the Somerset in June...
...course, books have to be borrowed and the institutions which lend them are doing incalculable service. But the value of the home library cannot easily be ex-aggregated. Cicero called a room without books "a body without a soul," and Carlyle tells us that a collection of books is "a real university." Without that collection in sight, ready for use, how beyond the reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds...