Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...particularly valuable as an irritant to English feeling, which is very sensitive just now. Passing over the propriety of such a remedy, I am not sure that "every endeavor has been made to conciliate us and to purchase our acquiescence." The Clayton-Bulwer treaty may have been repealed to strengthen an Anglo-Saxon understanding, but hardly to purchase our acquiescence in a war policy pursued on a continent to which, happily, the Monroe Doctrine does not extend. The announcement in Parliament the other day that England alone had sided with us in the Spanish war was made not to offset...
...that an identity must be established between learning and religion. Men must not get the idea that they are here for learning alone; it is for everything which makes for broader and sounder life that the University stands. Men must make the learning they gain here react upon and strengthen their religious lives. Nothing could be of greater value for this purpose than small meetings of a few men for unconstrained exchange of religious thought and ideals...
...what must be the hopes of Yale? To enrich, adorn, and make happier and more abundant the life of the nation and of every individual in it, to make the forces of nature contribute more and more to the welfare of man, to so purify and strengthen democracy as to establish it in all Christian countries, and to call the American people in ever clearer tones to that righteousness which alone can exalt a nation...
...there anything more delightful than the ties between young fellows which spring up and strengthen in daily college life-friendships born of sympathy, confidence, and affection, as yet untouched by the interests and claims of later life...
...become the oaks to whose shade you may always return for cheer and for rest in your victories and your troubles. Be sure that you will have both, for the one you will win and the other you must surely meet; and when they come, nothing will steady and strengthen you like real friends who will speak the frank words of truth tempered by affection; friends who will help you and never count the cost...