Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true that that accomplishment is far more splendid than the recounting? Was Achilles, Arcades, the ignorant, surly feller of men in battles, greater than Homer, who saw all of the known world, and beyond to the Pillars of Hercules, with a dreamer's eye? Was Henry the Fifth greater than Shakespeare, and Arthur greater than Tennyson...
...doubtless wise. Yet no delay of the outward formalities can change the fact that the school does come at this time to the close of its first hundred years, and hence to a point when all alumni and friends of the school will do well to reflect upon its splendid course in the past and to help provide funds for its continuing service in the future. To this end it is good news that copies of the school's history, as lately prepared, will be widely distributed, celebration or no celebration. Whoever reads thoughtfully and in sequence the record...
Some of those theological students or young ministers who are yet new to their work might find here splendid opportunity for the service of man to which they have earnestly consecrated their lives. Their intelligence and facility would amend in part their lack of technical training. So also those of the Society of Friends who hold strongly to the tenets of their faith, could help their fellow-men faithfully, and earn in an inoblivious way the right to their cordial name...
...Marshal has himself said, America in welcoming him is not welcoming an individual, but a nation. We pay all honor to Joffre because in him we see France, that splendid nation which, for the existence of her life and her republican ideals, has fought a great fight against the terrible power of Germany. Joffre is the representative of that people which our people honors with all dignity, as one strong man honors another...
...splendid with victory comes Joffre of France...