Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have at hand a volume entitled "Mornings in the College Chapel" (Houghton Mifflin and Co.), by Dr. Francis Greenwood Peabody. It contains a collection of short addresses on personal religion, delivered by Dr. Peabody at morning service. Each of these little monographs evolves briefly one distinct thought, a mere suggestion to be worked out to its conclusion by each individual and applied to his own particular needs. A large variety of topics are touched on, all of them personal and direct to a high degree, and treated in Dr. Peabody's characteristically straight-forward manner...
...afternoon and evening, Tuesday, Nov. 24, and Saturday, Nov. 28? Those who have listened to this Scotch divine and author say that no matter how high an ideal his readers have formed of him, they will not be disappointed when they see or hear him. Besides the qualities of thought and expression, the wisdom, the wit, the pathos and the power which characterize his writings, he brings to the platform the added attractions of a fine presence and strong personal magnetism...
...afternoon and evening, Tuesday, Nov. 24, and Saturday, Nov. 28? Those who have listened to this Scotch divine and author say that no matter how high an ideal his readers have formed of him, they will not be disappointed when they see or hear him. Besides the qualities of thought and expression, the wisdom, the wit, the pathos and the power which characterize his writings, he brings to the platform the added attractions of a fine presence and strong personal magnetism...
...true sense of justice and fair dealing he was known as one endowed with rare qualities. By his death the class has lost a true conscientious friend and faithful supporter. Though we can no longer see him, he will remain with us in thought always...
...lose the Princeton debate we shall have had two defeats in succession, one by each of our rivals; and the combination will strike a very hard blow at our reputation in debating. If, on the other hand, we won the Princeton debate and lost to Yale it would be thought that Yale had come up in debating rather than that we had gone down. And if we won both debates this year our old supremacy would be re-asserted and the defeat of last year would be looked upon in the light of an accident...