Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years a member of the Corporation. The Corporation, as undergraduates perhaps need to be reminded, consists of seven persons--the President, the Treasurer, and five Fellows. These are the legal holders of the property of the University, and the most important administrative body for guiding its policy. No finer spirit is shown in any part of the University's work than in the service given gratuitously by members of the Corporation. Theirs is a labor of love and of honor, a type of what Harvard expects from her sons both for herself and for the community. Dr. Cabot...
...heaven by the fixed stars or milky way; the ninth heaven by a crystalline sphere; and the tenth by the Empyrion, which is the furthest from earth. In this structural system, Dante shows that the further we are from God the less capable we are of entering into His Spirit, and that as the Empyrion is the centre of the heavens, yet embracing them all so God is both centre and circumference of all, for in Him we live and move...
...Purgatorio'," said Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, "is instinctive with the spirit of love and the redemption of man." It opens with a beautiful description of dawn, illustrative of the hope in Dante's breast, arising from the consciousness of a definite aim,--a pilgrimage for the attainment of the liberty of the soul...
Three steps lead up to the gate of Purgatory--the white step, symbolic of the innocence and beauties in life, the black step, symbolic of life blasted by sin, and the red step, symbolic of the spirit of sacrificing love for ridding one's self of a sinful past...
...earthly Paradise" where the voluntary pilgrim receives the mitre, symbolic of self-mastery, and the crown, the symbol of freedom of his soul. The pilgrim then bathes in the river Lethe and forgets all that is evil--symbolic of the forgiveness of sins. With renewed soul and spirit he is now, ready for Heaven and for the love and presence...