Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...McPherson spoke of the necessity of faith in our modern life and read several passages in the Old and New Testaments, exemplifying the ideal of simple trust in God. In our own day genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision...
...that through the committee the marked abuses, which he attacked so severely in his last report, have been largely remedied. The reader infers that though President Eliot probably retains his personal dislike for football he is not disappointed in the use which the Athletic Committee has made of the trust which the Corporation and Overseers voted to continue to them...
...expansion of quarters already secured; with the progress already made in providing courses, and in strengthening the corps of instruction. The progress in this direction has been remarkable ever since Professors Shaler and Hollis, and Mr. Chamberlain have been in charge of affairs. But their purpose is, not to trust solely to their own judgment, but to call on practical men to point out practical methods of improvement and enlargement...
...long a time as any member of the faculty, so he knows whereof he speaks when he declares his convictions that the undergraduates here appreciate learning more than they did thirty years ago, a point which will be incredulously accepted among many in spite of the experience and trust worthiness of its author. His opinion is, that the individual desire for learning and improvement is the only source of university improvement and that graduate assistance would better not be asked in any branch. "The history of athletics for ten years past has seemed to me to prove that the more...
...will of the late Martin Brimmer contains several public bequests. It provides that from the one-half of the property put in trust for his wife during her life, $50,000 shall go to Harvard University, $20,000 to the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the surplus of that half, if any, shall go to the Museum of Fine Arts...