Word: wake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred and thirty ninth psalm, "Thou hast me searched and known; yea all my thoughts afar to thee are known." The worldly estimation of character he said, is made by expert judgment; but God alone knows man's true character. The choir sang Gilbert's "A wake thou that sleepest," Selby's "I will magnify thee," and "As now the sun's declining rays," by Barnby. The service closed with the 253rd hymn...
...earnestness. They seem to think they can play hard when they choose, and at other times are at liberty to gaze around the field or do whatever else suits them best. This sort of work has lasted quite long enough and the sooner the captain and his men wake up to the fact that they have something to do besides amusing themselves, the better it will be for them and the less the chance of an ignominious defeat in the coming contest with Yale...
...appeared. She is a solid, comfortable looking little steamer, but not very well suited for the use of the crew. The men now stripped their coats and proceeded to load their baggage upon the "Niantic." At 5.45 p. m. the steamer started off, towing the two shells in her wake, and the crew started on a brisk steady walk toward their quarters. The distance is only six miles, but the road is the dustiest and hilliest in the country. At six o'clock they reached "Red Top," their quarters. The freshmen were just starting out for their afternoon row. They...
...express the desire that this petition be started, and I am sure that everybody would subscribe. The best way to go about would be the method employed in the prayer petition. At any rate the base-ball management, if it cares anything for the nine's success, must wake up and go to work on this matter, and at once, too, for we have only about a month. If it will only make the start it will find plenty of willing helpers...
Professor F. G. Peabody conducted the customary services at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took as his text the familiar passage, "Wake to yourselves, friends of the mammon of unrighteousness." The sermon was scholarly, impressive and full of interest. Professor Peabody said by the mammon of unrighteousness was meant the temporal business affairs of every-day life. We must regard them as an enemy, or a master, or a friend. Treating these matters as inimical, we violate the divine injunction to be faithful in the best of things. By allowing them to lead and control us we no longer serve...