Word: statements
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Strength is the power that ought to be impressed upon the world by all teachers and expounders of religion. Christianity exists on a positive statement "Thou shalt," and the cultivation of such precepts together with the daily trying to improve one's condition tend to produce in one renewed strength. These are the central things of religion. Some ecclesiastics forbid dancing, going to the theatres and like amusements. These are but side issues, It is the broader principles, those that cover larger bounds which will give one increased physical and mental power and so more strength...
...There is to be sure, no mid-year examination in this course for the nature of the work renders one unnecessary, but the imposition of daily themes is none the less unwarranted on that account, since the official announcement of the mid-year examinations is headed by the following statement...
Although do not imagine that any one puts much faith in a statement made by the Lampoon, still I wish to correct the one in today's issue of that paper concerning the Glee Club. It is merely necessary to state that only one western paper had an adverse criticism of our concerts, and that the same paper criticised still more harshly the concert given by the Yale Glee Club...
...tonight in Tremont Temple on the Southern Question, but his speech in Sanders Theatre will be still more interesting; for he will then state his opinion on the policy of his party in the next Congress, which, as he so largely directs that policy, will come like an authoritative statement...
...statement has been going the round of the college papers that Yale has more freshmen this year than Harvard. This is not true except when the scientific and academic freshmen of Yale are compared with the academic and scientific freshmen at Harvard. Counting in all the departments, Harvard has some 70 or 80 more freshmen...