Word: visions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Legislative Vision" relates a discussion over "a bill for the elevation of the lower class by means of advisers, for the higher education of the people by early rising, for the improvement of public morals, and for other purposes." Several of the hits are very telling...
...George A. Gordon preached at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from Revelation IV., 3, "And there was a rainbow round about the throne." He said that man always describes his feeling by symbols, and so it is with John; he had a vision which he embodied in a revelation. By symbols he tells what the vision means to him. He sees first in the Lord strength and round about that strength beauty. Man has not always seen God as John saw him. There was a time when some men saw but the sovereign quality...
...voluntary class in Elocution yesterday afternoon for the first time. The large number of men present, almost thirty, shows that interest in this branch of instruction has by no means diminished, in spite of Mr. Hayes' inability to form a class earlier. At the next meeting, Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal" will be read, and after that is finished, selections from Fletcher's "Advanced Readings and Recitations." The class will meet twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2 o'clock...
...education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that there is a fog on account of the obscurity which it casts about all objects sensible to the vision; so we may perceive the evil of competitive examinations by the manner in which they dim the keenness of the moral perceptions of those affected by them. The mind will not be broadened by an education which is built on the competitive examination system; rather, it will be narrowed...
...Waltz, "Vision'd Amour" Delbruch...