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...that the idea got life. In Isaiah, chapters 24-27, there are many problems and obscure allusions, but the conception reached is a still higher one. Israel is regarded no longer as a guilty nation, but as a righteous one under oppression. The prophet describes the removal of the veil of death and sorrow and the glorious entry of every race into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Carpenter's Lecture. | 12/5/1894 | See Source »

There are two ways of looking at the world: one is that of the cynic and pessimist who maintains that the foundation of things is bad and that all so-called right and beauty is only a thin veil over it; the other view sees that God's judgment on his world is the right one and that the creation is surely advancing to perfection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 1/18/1892 | See Source »

...committee is to be congratulated on the reforms it has introduced in the manner of keeping accounts, and although perfection has not by any means been attained, we have every reason to expect that hereafter the expenses of our athletic organizations will not be shrouded by the impenetrable veil of mystery and secrecy which has been far too common in the past. It is pleasant to know that for once not a single athletic team is in debt, and that all have some surplus in the treasury. Indeed, good financial management has now become an important factor in the success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/4/1888 | See Source »

...rhymesters, writers who need not hope for immortality, but the grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that one who here pens more despicable verse will be a greater than Wordsworth. A veil, never to be raised, hides the agony of authorship, more poignant than the sorrows of Werther, with which some poems, now hidden in the brains of their authors and the basket of the editor, have been forged. And yet it is from such a school that the poets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Poets. | 2/9/1886 | See Source »

...tremendous amount of physical strength and the evident ability to eat four meals a day; '88 with a painful regard to dress, lurking signs of the coming moustache, and a general air of owning the college, which perhaps they come rightly by; and lastly '89, - but we draw the veil over the picture of childlike innocence and confidence which '89 would present! Not only would the four classes furnish a field for the scientists, but what realms of delight could be opened by the production of the photographs of the average Annex girl! What curiosity by that of the representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1885 | See Source »

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