Word: vision
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the examinations are removed from our immediate circle of vision, we can look at the question of their abolition from a standpoint that is fairly unprejudiced. On one point in the abolishment that seems bound to come in time, I should like to have information. The outside world, which admittedly knows a little about the subject, has severely frowned on the present system. The "student body" has almost unhesitatingly declared against the long examinations held twice a year. The opinion of the Faculty shows an emphatic tendency towards doing away with mid-years and finals. Our professors are constantly...
...Chapel yesterday afternoon from the text "Let us set aside the sin that doth so easily beset us and run with patience the race that is set before us," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews. He said: When Paul wrote that, he had before him a vision of the great games, and he speaks at first enthusiastically for there was no one who would not do his best to win or get a high place in the Olympic games. As Paul turns aside to the race of life there comes to his tone a touch of sadness. That...
...shows the tendency of the two dialects of court and country to coalesce and form a new language. The almost contemporary poem of Piers Ploughman, written for popular effect, is Anglo-Saxon in the form of its metre, and shows but slight traces of French in its diction. The vision opens thus...
...What a great opportunity manque was the Harvard Night of the Irving engagement ! Why in the world couldn't the boys have been boys, and given their natural, happy enthusiasm boyish vent ! What an hour it would have been, if when Terry stood there, a radiant vision, kissing her hand in thanks for their applause, they had from all parts of the house showered her with crimson roses, one flung by every boy-Harvard's own colors, breathing in rose-breath Harvard's good will ! - And where was the grand, concentrated Harvard cheer, that should have spoken farewell...
...last as a college preacher, took as his text, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." From their earliest history down to Christ's time the Jews had looked with a broader or narrower vision for a deliverer of their race. This forward looking was the distinguishing feature of the Jewish religion. So that when so simple men as the shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius, Zoroaster and Socrates had all prophesied of some one to come who should...