Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Pessimism is essentially a religious disease, for which there are two stages of recovery. The first of these is the belief that behind nature there is a spirit whose expression nature is. The second is the more complete and joyous, and corresponds to the freer exercise of religious trust and fancy. The craving to know nature has resulted in the progress of science. But our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame...
...hundred men. That is the sort of applause that goes to the heart of each separate player and makes him feel that the honor of the University rests in great part upon him, and that he will do all there is in him to do to show that this trust has not been misplaced. If this sort of organized cheering is not given at the game, and kept up to from start to finish, especially if the game is up hill, the management will have only themselves to blame. The benches will be filled with students ready and eager...
...Populist movement is an expression of genuine grievances.- (a) Workingmen have genuine grievances against employers.- (b) Consumers have genuine grievances against trusts and corporations: e.g., Standard Oil trust.- (c) Farmers have genuine grievances against the railroads.- (d) Debtor class must suffer by the demonetizations of silver.- (e) All these different classes of grievances the Populist Party represents: Amer. Mag. of Civics...
...association that this was not enough, and that your generous act in returning the guarantee, paid to secure the game, called for more substantial acknowledgement than mere words. There has been no thought or attempt on our part, in sending this, toward a repayment of that gift, and we trust you will consider it in no such light. Our athletics, as you may know, being supported entirely by voluntary subscription, the return of our guarantee was gladly accepted; but the act nevertheless had more than a money value with...
...Johnson held many offices of trust and honor and wrote several noted works on religion and on medicine...