Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Council is to be congratulated on its continuance of the Register but it seems obvious that if the book is to realize its highest sphere of usefulness it should be published as early as possible...
...Haven Journal-Courier: "The idea advanced by the Harvard CRIMSON in its editorial columns, that intercollegiate football be taken out of the sphere into which it has been carried by the commercial spirit and be restored to its simpler condition of forty years ago, is approved, as we take it, by the Yale Daily News. . . . Harvard and Yale are headed in the right direction...
...large university there is a tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...
Both Columbia University and New York University opened with addresses which discussed social control or social order from two points of view. Professor SMITH, in welcoming the students at Columbia, spoke of the need of a large sphere of freedom for the individual. The occasional harm which may result from giving him unhampered liberty to follow his bent is "the price which society must pay for "genius, for character and progress." Dean MARSHALL S. BROWN at New York University on the other hand, put the emphasis on obedience to the lawfully expressed will of the majority...
...essence of Swedenborg's account of his revelation is that things spiritual have their counterpart in things physical. From God emanates a divine sphere, which appears in the spiritual world as a sun, and from this spiritual sun again proceeds the sun of the natural world. In God there are three infinite "degrees" of being, and in man and all things corresponding, three finite and created degrees. They are love, wisdom, use; or end, cause, and effect. The final ends of all things are in the Divine Mind; the causes of all things are in the spiritual world...