Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tremendous activity and indefatigable research, but his great stores of mental lore were no mere useless acquisition. All the powers and the resources of his mind were held by him as a sacred trust to aid his spiritual thought and to substantiate before men the result of his thought...
...only did his impressive sermons attract the students to the chapel, but his overflowing kindness drew them to his home. He was pastor as well as preacher The students felt that in him they had a friend and counsellor in whom they might confide and trust implicitly. Dr. Peabody was the most popular instructor of the college, and the cheers for him at class-day were always the heartiest and the longest of the occasion. Indeed even to the present time, classes whose members had never been under his instruction still cheered for the venerable doctor...
...trust it will not be the less welcome if I say that the gift is to be interpreted in part also as an expression of my admiration for Harvard University, his alma mater...
...pluck comes from the fact that the greater amount of news does not happen before the public gaze. A reporter, if he is to give an accurate account of these secret events must be indefatigable in exhausting every source of information and verifying every rumor before he places trust in it. As for tact, it makes friends, and every friend is an unpaid assistant...
...more reasonable and fairer to both teams that Yale's method of playing the third and deciding game first. In fact, we are surprised that in face of the unfavorable criticism this plan met with from all sides last spring, Yale could think seriously of proposing it again. We trust she is sincere in her desire to play us; and yet it does not seem to us that her propositions were as liberal as they might have been. We hope that upon more mature consideration, the spirit which has previously characterized Yale and won her the respect of all, will...