Word: striveth
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...excelled, such as (exempla gratia) football and crew. Furthermore, as Ecclesiastes warned, much study is a weariness of the flesh (12:12), and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow (1:18). And, as St. Paul has said (I. Cor. 9:25), speaking of Olympic athletes, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." In stead of engaging in vain railings and obstinate goadings, the Administrators and Calculators should remind themselves of the Proverb, "Boast not to thyself of the morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." (27:1) H.O.J. Brown...
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