Word: soule
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when the motive is no longer effective. Hence our memories with all the feelings and emotions attached to them are constantly controlled by hidden powers; they really disappear when new motives enter the soul...
...appreciate the value of a close relationship between professor and student. As one of our eminent Harvard graduates has said, "It is worth all the school's cost if the long discipline brings each one of us into living touch with one real instructor, one whose word reaches the soul and creates that hunger of the mind whose satisfaction is our education." Such friendship is of mutual benefit, for it ennobles the student and it humanizes the instructor...
...word in the most disparaging sense. Now it is not to be doubted that austerity in America is a quality rare enough to appear to be "ex machina." But seeing a miracle, to suppose that there must be pullies and cardboard is to be really suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like...
Samuel Hill's money will build in the city of Seattle, one of the three great Pacific ports from which American goods have started to flow to Asiatic Russia, an instrument through which Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...
...deep and lucid mind we mourn, An eye that on the sun of truth had gazed, Nor ever turned away like others dazed-- A soul that travelled over paths unworn, And searched the hidden deeps and knew no bourne, A soul that yet its glance in wonder raised, Like children at a miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never...