Word: vision
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book is, however, engrossing and exceedingly clever. A distinct power of analysis and observation appears in every story, clear vision combining with fearless statement to produce conviction in the reader's mind. We are indebted to the author for the best written book of fiction that has yet appeared on the subject of Harvard life, although narrow in its treatment...
...first must be sought the Kindom of God, the vision given to Christ of an ideal society. The fundamental evil of society today is the alienation of two parts. Men overlook the supreme good in their zeal for material success. The note of greatness is absent from our progress, and the organizing power of moral impulse is gone. That we are better than people of a century ago we owe to our fathers, who have left us a goodly heritage of sturdy virtues, and this it is our duty to transmit to our descendants with increased worth...
...University sends you into the world as missionaries, to organize our social interests in Christian order, to put the supreme thing first. Great sacrifices have been made in many homes that you might come here and your careers must be more than mere material successes. Cherish always a vision of the possible life and seek to live up to the ideas which are held of you by those blinded perhaps by parental love. It is the crowning glory of the American college that she exists for the nation; that as she receives recruits from all over the country...
...meeting last night in Holden Chapel was led by F. L. Waldo '98, who took as his text Acts 26, 19:- "The Heavenly vision...
Harvard Christian Association. Weekly Meeting. Subject: The Heavenly Vision. Acts 26:19. Leader: Mr. F. L. Waldo. Holden Chapel...