Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second place it is a farce. If you believe in Christ he will lift you out of doubt. It is a supernatural force, and all attempts to account for Him naturally have failed. Other great men have stood in clusters of lesser men, Christ stands in a vast solitude. Christ is sinless, Christ is truth. In answer to the three great questions "Is there a God, a soul, a future life," he without doubting speaks to the soul and says "He that has seen me has seen the Father," and dying told his disciples that He went to prepare...
This brought Mr. Storey to his final proposition namely the possibility of the vast number of the better class of both Democrats and Republicans, who agrees in the main of holding independent conventions to protest against the candidates of the party before country principle. Such action, he said, alone would defeat the nomination of insignificant and corrupt men in place of the men of ability and high principle. Unless some such action as this shall be taken in New York there is but little doubt but that the influence of Hillism and Tammany will defeat Mr. Cleveland's nomination...
...president devotes considerable space to the discussion of co-education and the results thus far obtained. His conclusion with regard to the social influence wrought by the women is that "a vast majority of the young women are not only earnestly devoted to the working out of great and noble purposes, but are also disposed on every occasion to exert their influence in behalf of a cultivated and refined social life. This spirit pervades the college, and it would be difficult indeed to point to a single instance, during the last three years at least, where a prolonged residence within...
...game. So much enthusiasm for foot ball is being shown every day that we have no fear that the attendance will not be large this afternoon. Yet we take this opportunity of urging upon every man the necessity of his presence. Encouraging supporters, with hearty cheering, will put a vast amount of life into the players...
...playing of the candidates for the freshman nine this spring shows that they have a vast amount of work to do if they hope to make a respectable record. Their work in so unimportant a game as that of yesterday can hardly be taken as a fair estimate of what they can do; but it at least indicates that to succeed they must put far more zeal into their work. The listless way in which they played out the game was anything but encouraging...