Word: whose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought it constituted his ultimate sanction, so it will survive, when the creeds in which it wrought itself out have faded away...
...committee heartily endorsed the scheme of the athletic club of the Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, whose intention is to hold a carnival of games on the seventeenth and eighteenth of May in order to raise the standard of collegiate athletics. The first day will be devoted to track athletics and the second to tennis and base ball. Only members of colleges will be eligible to compete. It has not yet been decided whether the games will be scratch or handicap. Besides first, second and third prizes, special medals will be given to heat winners...
...University of Pennsylvania has received a gift of about 8250,000 from Gen. Isaac J. Wistar to build and endow a museum of anatomy and biology. This museum will be in memory of Dr. Caspar Wistar, whose oldest living descendant will always be a member of the Board of Trustees...
...Administrative Board has voted that, unless for exceptional reasons, no student shall be permitted to lengthen the Spring Recess at either beginning or end. The Board believes that at Christmas every student whose home is far from Cambridge should be allowed to leave Cambridge before the recess begins - provided he receives formal permission from the office; but it is unwilling that the Spring Recess should become a serious break in college work...
...Nero; in Suetonius, and in Lucian. The latter speaks of their devotion to each other, and explains how any sharper might easily set himself up as a prophet and receive no small income from the contributions of these poor fanatics. He tells a story of Peregrimes, a man whose object in life was to become notorious. Among other follies this man became a Christian. He was so clever that he soon took the lead of all officers of the church, interpreted many books, and wrote many others. Finally he was made a bishop; then he broke some of the Christians...