Word: toils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...breath of heaven must swell the sail or else the toil is lost...
...Music Lover" Henry Van Dyke describes with his usual felicity of style the tranquilizing and uplifting effect made upon a toil-worn man of the world by a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C minor. Subjective interpretations of musical masterpieces are fraught with danger, as the same music may mean one thing to one hearer and something else to another. But Mr. Van Dyke has shown discretion in selecting for his possibly too rhapsodic treatment a work of Beethoven which is intensely subjective and even, as far as absolute music can be, definitely autobiographic. It is well known...
...CRIMSON is thirty-five years old today. We have developed from the fortnightly Magenta of 1873, through toil, financial difficulty and competition, to what you see us now--a daily paper of the undergraduates, attempting to represent fairly their many enterprises and to voice without prejudice their views. We unite today in entertaining, as best we are able, the graduates who have gone before us, whose efforts alone made possible the CRIMSON and placed it where it stands today...
...commissioned officers, some as privates; some were in the infantry, others in the cavalry, others wore sewed to the sleeve of their shirts the red cross of the hospital corps; everywhere throughout the vast extent of armies, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, or left behind to sweat and toil in weariness, men we had known and men we had heard of, men placed in command of companies, or in the third relief of the guard, were doing what ought to be done...
...Whereas, Professor Warren created in each of his pupils the feeling that only through taking infinite pains and through perpetuate it to posterity, showing in his own earnest toil and gentle teaching the scholar's high faithfulness to Truth Absolute...