Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...because there was no light in him." The truth of these words goes straight to the moral core of things; it brings into light a vital aspect of life which we are apt to overlook. Our universe is a truthful, a moral, a Christian universe, and no one can stand in it who is not at least honest, and virtuous, and Christlike. No man can stand in the truth who says there is no God. If he wants proofs of God's existence let him not seek them in theology; let him rather read the book of his own life...
...Students who fail in a course will be assigned to E. Last year this grade was fixed at two-fifths of the maximum mark. Failure on the work of the year is changed from "failure to get one half the maximum mark," to those who "stand below grade E." As the regulation previously read, a student who failed on the year's work as a whole, although he passed on all his studies, could make up the deficiency by taking one or more electives in addition to those regularly required for a degree. The marks on these courses would...
...good name. For such action forces us to one of two conclusions: Either the knowledge of these men is too extended to permit their wasting an hour in listening to such men as are deemed fit to instruct us, ordinary mortals, or their brains are too feeble to stand the strain of absorbing so much at one time...
...evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken lantern into the locomotive caboose and cry "hold her!" The engineer heard the cry and stopped the engine just before the slide. In applying the anecdote Mr. Moody said with great earnest, "I cast a broken lantern at your feet this...
...speaking of the Harvard game, the Princetonian says: "There were 200 seats on the grand stand reserved for men with lady escorts." - Yale News...