Word: true
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...true question is of the reality and validity of religious sentiment. All religious forms are necessarily and confessedly symbolic; they are representative of something other than what their mere outer appearance would suggest; thus it is only the spirit of the heart and soul which gives the Church and Liturgy their true signification. Until the symbols are explained, they serve merely to hide their true meaning. Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall...
...hall. The price, it is said, must inevitably vary from that of Memorial, and this would eventually cause unpleasant discriminations between students boarding in the expensive hall and those in the less expensive. If the first of these statements was correct probably the second would be true; but the first is not correct. The expenses necessary to the new hall over and above those at Memorial are only about one thousand dollars a year. Even supposing that at the start there were but three hundred boarders in the hall, the increase in price to each one would on this score...
...would be an injury to the cause of true reform by obscuring the real source of evil-the spoils system...
...deny that the English undergraduate is as much more athletic in his tendencies than the American undergraduate as the greater number of rowing men at Oxford and Cambridge and the keener rowing spirit would indicate. While it is unquestionably true, as I have already written, that the English nation, and of course the English university men, are more generally inclined towards sport than are we, yet the paucity in numbers of our rowing men may not be traced to the want of athletic inclination in our universities...
trary they might be the crews of a single university preparing to meet a common rival. It is certainly a most pleasing picture, and shows the true spirit of sportsmanship...