Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Bishop's subject was, "Why am I a Christian?" He outlined briefly the various stages of uncertainty through which he had gone as a college man and averred that he fully believed in the saying that "Every man must be his own Columbus and find his continent of truth." He subsequently gave four reasons which combined to convince him that the world was turning inevitably more and more towards. Christianity. Recently one of England's most eminent financiers approached him with the conviction that the Anglican Church was the only faction in England that could repair conditions...
...Nature-worship, as manifested in this deification of the revolving year, was not purely worship of the aesthetic. The people felt that behind it all was a sprit of eternal goodness and truth and beauty that breaks the yearning heart. Contemplation of this beauty lifted the worshipper to such raptures of desire and abortion that mere words could not express the feelings, and motion was the natural outlet, however feel, for the pent-up emotions. So in the Molpe we find the primal expression of exaltation and worship that is present in all better poetry since...
What is to the point is this blessing or hane or what one will the holiday. Four times during the college year classes cease for one day while fewer people cross the Yard and more group pictures are taken on Widener steps. Few, if the truth were known, have really left the environs of Cambridge. Most are in their rooms wishing, in the emotional voluptuousness of the holiday spirit, that it were a weekend so that they might have a vacation...
...paper so intimate as yours, speaking to its guests in general society, should restrain itself from giving offense to any one present. It is no answer to say; "Let the injured person retire." You do not profess to be an organ of any particular faith or creed and in truth you do not wish any of your subscribers to retire. . . . HOMER MOONEY...
John Donne, the poet-preacher and devoted spokesman of "conceits" has been called with a certain cynical truth "the founder of a school of bad taste," "Donne" say Dryden, "affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his common verses where Nature only should reign, and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice specializations of philosophy when he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love...