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...freshness of his descriptions. "The Lady of the Lake" which appeared two years later is perhaps sweeter and more artistically developed. Scott's poetry is not studied and is open to a good deal of criticism, it is wild, free and unrestrained. Everywhere is evident his humble and unselfish love of nature...
...will become-like the similar building at Yale-the permanent centre for the whole religions life of the University. So to associate it with Phillips Brooks would be a help towards keeping this religious life what his whole teaching and personal influence went so far to make it,-unselfish and genuine and thoroughly manly. And there is one point of especial appropriateness. If he stood for anything, it was for unity of the positive kind: the sinking of minor differences in hard work for the fundamental aims which belong to all the denominations in common. He would be very glad...
...George A. Gordon of Boston spoke at the meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association last evening on the "Unselfish Life." In substance his remarks were as follows: "Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shall find it after many days.' That is a counsel for life. unselfish life. It seems to the majority of men that the pleasures of life must be through sense, through passion. The great battle of life is the struggle between what seems and what is. Let us study the advice given in the text. Only the highest soul can give us real...
...quiet and unselfish nature soon won him the regard and admiration of all his classmates: and to us who have learned to love him Harold Battelle will always stand as a noble example of sincerity, fortitude and hope...
...kinds of lives which are open to us. We can devote ourselves to the good of our country and of our fellow men or we can think only of ourselves and lead lives of selfishness. There never was a better chance than there is today of choosing the unselfish life. We have the example of Christ before us; let us try to get into our lives a little of His divine life. May the lens, which always sees us as we are, find us following Paul in unselfish christian lives...