Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their object. This object the writer in the last. Advocate has clearly defined: "Above all and through all the idea is to broaden university life, and to put the University in its proper place in relation to the men and women who are at present entirely be yond its sphere of influence...
...last three years has produced highly successful comedies. A new one for next spring is already under consideration. The Conference Francaise, forming as it does the only practicable means of bringing together members of the French courses and French speaking students in college, has an evident sphere of utility, and its prospects for the future are bright...
...squalid provincialism of Nazareth, with its limited horizon and cramped ideas of life, coming into the larger activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home, discovers in his new sphere so many new and inspiring ideas that he becomes for a time lost to his former self and forgets in the revelation of the world the duties which bind him to his home. Like the Savior, many a young man finds himself shaken in his reverie by a call...