Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honorary degrees were awarded to thirteen men and women this morning, at the University's 308th Commencement. Only one foreign nation was represented in the presentations, and degrees went to six educators, a pair of religious leaders, and two top-level diplomats...
...varsity jumped away to a 2-0 lead in the very first inning. Al Martin was hit by a pitch and went to third when an Eli infielder muffed Chet Boulris' pop-fly. Rodgers then fetched both men home with a sharp single to left...
...score was registered in the seventh on a walk, a sacrifice, and a single by George Harrington. But by this time many of the spectators had lost interest in the contest and were busy fighting for places at the water fountain. So far as this reporter could see, everybody went home happy except for an elderly man named Ethan Allen and several little boys in blue...
...previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called `god'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes sense Him as a mighty spiritual `presence' permeating all mankind and nature." The agnostic's view came in a close second; after it came the traditional Christian formulation and then the belief in "a vast, impersonal principle...
...greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will be part of a higher history than all history hither to.'" But Nietzsche's madman, like Nietzsche himself, despaired. "At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke and went out. 'I come too early,' he said then; 'my time has not come yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering--it has not yet reached the ears of men. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars--and yet they have...