Word: toward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sermon in Appleton Chapel last night was preached by Rev. F. G. Peabody on Dan. 6 chap. 10 verse, "His window being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem." "The way a man habitually faces is the great point of importance in the church, in the age and in everyone of us. Nearness will not bind, distance will not separate us except as our frontage, our landscape is alike or different. Everyone may look toward other far-off spiritual landscapes, although he have first to cut away from before his window the tangled vine of the perplexing world. Open your spiritual...
Miss Drexel, president of the sophomore class at Vassar, has given $500 toward a gymnasium fund...
...tone of the college press is improving every year, and we notice a more manly spirit. It was toward this feeling of friendly and open intercourse that Mr. Cowles' speech tended the other evening, and those who heard it were more than glad to return the advance in double measure, And so we feel sure that any ill feeling between Harvard and Yale in the past is due in a great measure to the careful nourishing of the seeds of jealousy by outside influences, particularly by that of the daily public press. Careless reporting and "special" work done...
...University of Pennsylvania has received a gift of ten thousand dollars toward the erection of its new library...
Three hundred thousand dollars have been given toward the foundation of a Roman Catholic university in Washington...