Word: tending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Resolved, That the new requirements for admission to Harvard College tend to diminish the value of the degree of Batchelor of Arts...
...call attention to the opportunity which will be given this evening to meet Dr. Brooks socially. An important feature of the newly instituted system of college pastors is the splendid opportunity thus given to come in contact with men eminent in the outside world. The exercises in chapel tend to bring this about to a great extent, but an hour spent informally with these men in their rooms, is of infinitely greater pleasure and value. We would add, also, that this evening will be the last evening at hone with Dr. Brooks as the time of his pastorate here ends...
...sentiment of the college, when we say that a few earnest words addressed to the students every morning not only renders the service more attractive, but must have a powerful influence over the students. It is a fact that the ordinary chapel service repeated morning after morning does tend to become monotonous. But if we are privileged to listen to addresses by men like Dr. Brooks, Dr. Hale, Dr. Peabody and the other preachers to the university, attendance at morning chapel would never become what we fear it is now considered by many - simply a duty...
Surely, my friends, surely there is nothing in the greatest office which the American people can confer, which should make your president necessarily mean, sordid, selfish, ambitious and untrustworthy. On the contrary, the solemn duties which confront him tend to a sacred sense of responsibility. The trust of the American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake...
...lapse of history itself. Every institution which healthily lives is always in the very process of its life, freeing itself more and more from slavery to its partial and temporary connections and entering into broader relations with the true element of its existence. All healthy action and movement tend to more and more liberated and enlarged relation to the intended conditions and elemental supply of the thing which acts and moves. There is no true sign of the divine presence in the divine care of the world than that. The Church of Christ begins almost as a Jewish institution...