Word: true
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...follow him must necessarily renounce their every day pursuits and cease to come in contact with others. It often puzzles one who tries to understand what He mant by saying, that one who became a disciple of his had to forsake all possessions and follow Him. It is true that the slow, stupid populace with which he had to deal needed some goad to arouse them to a consideration of their spiritual condition; but that does not solve the riddle entirely. He did not seek to take away worldly possessions and objects of love from his followers; he rather wished...
...surrender of a selfish point of view neither changes the outside world nor takes it away; it merely changes a man's relations with that outside world. A new sense of the value of opportunities comes to the man who sees his duty to the world in its true light. Jesus does not really ask men to abandon their possessions; he rather wishes them to abandon themselves to God so that God may give himselt to them...
...Hart, Practical Essays on American Government, p. 98; Cleveland's Writings and Speeches, p. 35; Cleveland's Message, Public Opinion, XVI, 238 and 261 (Dec. 7 and 14, 1893); Journal of Political Economy, I, 280 (Mch. 1893); The Hawaiian Failure, Nation, LVIII, 96 (Feb. 8, 1894); The True Monroe Doctrine, Nation, XXXIV, 9 (Jan. 5, 1882); Papers relating to annexation of Hawaii; House report on foreign relations...
...Yale or to what an extent general attention was given it here. The last two days of practice showed this interest even more conclusively than the game itself, and it may be added that the work shown in these last efforts, was more encouraging, and gave the first true prediction of the game's result as it really turned out. Previously in the season Yale's opinions were very reserved, and there was hope instead of confidence, in spite of the encouraging press opinions and the reliance the public seemed ready to put in that hackneyed article, "Yale sand...
...that is the most essential quality of a good team,- pluck. The critics who make it a business to weigh scores against scores, and to forecast results by shrewd comparisons, may fight the battle out beforehand and give the victory to one team or the other. But every true Harvard man will cast such considerations aside today. The past will play no part in the game with Pennsylvania. The team will go on to the field with a definite task,- to win, and that not because other games during the season have resulted in this way or that, but becase...