Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discourse taught was the omnipresence of God to men. Our Life is in God's and his life is in ours. One of the points of difference between Jewish doctrine and that of the church of Christ was that in the former the necessity was imposed of seeking the spirit by pilgrimages to some appointed and perhaps distant spot; in the latter that He whom Christ called Our Father is ever and always with us, and we may everywhere accept his present love. Every word of the Lord's Prayer shows the nearness of Him to us. The real leaders...
...address of the editors, in which they complained that the cause of the failure of the magazine was due to jealousy and envy, "in a place too, where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, where we have witnessed the emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself an unnatural foe to its literary seniours...
...that the average Yale man would do well to overcome as soon as possible, and that is the ever present thought that some one or other is constantly plotting and leaguing against this university. We are altogether too prone here to imagine other colleges prejudiced against us, and this spirit is, in a measure, fostered by some of our younger graduates. It is a false and unsafe feeling, and one that in the end is bound to affect us in an unfavorable way, both ourselves personally, as members of Yale University, and at the hands of other colleges with whom...
...first number of the Epoch, a new weekly published in New York, has appeared. It contains a large number of interesting and well-written articles, contributed by men of no less distinction than Carl Schurz, Mr. Stedman and Prof. Boyesen. The editorials are written in a conservative spirit, and treat the great questions of the day in a sensible, moderate way. The book notices are particularly copious and well done. If the Epoch continues as it has begun, the editors may feel confident of having supplied a need that was felt in the journalistic world...
This prophesy was happily correct, though it was made in much the same spirit as that which animated a freshman, who saw an unpatriotic classmate betting against the Harvard nine on the game of the 15th, to "run around, offering odds of two to one on Harvard to the muckers, at the end of the fourth inning." It was the "never say die" of Barnaby Rudge's raven over again...