Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Memorial number to the late Phillips Brooks. The editors may well feel proud of the work which they have done, for certainly the pleasant reminders which the various articles will make cannot fail to find a warm place in the hearts of the students. The editors have shown great wisdom, too, in having the articles written by men of different denominations, by clergy and laity, and dealing with so many different places and periods of the Bishop's life. No better test of a man's real character can be found than the opinions of men of different ideas...
...better illustration of the wisdom in appointing a Graduate Treasurer and Manager could be had than the reports of the financial standings of the different teams for last year. A summary of the expenses and receipts is given below. It will be seen by a comparison with figures of previous years that there has been a constant tendency to increase the expenditures, a necessary result of the present system of management and of the competition which exists between college teams. A recapitulation of the total expenses and receipts follows...
WHEREAS: God in his infinite wisdom has taken from us our class-mate Wayne MacVeagh Jr. Be it resolved that we have lost in him not only a companion but a gentleman, scholar and friend whose loss will ever be felt as irreparable. Be it further resolved that these resolutions be published in the Boston and college papers and a copy of them be sent to the parents of the deceased...
...idea of love cannot be said to be Dante's distinctively, for it is rather the fusion of three ideas of love which he found prevalent in the world: - the Platonic love, or the desire of the incomplete to make itself perfect, whose ideal was the passion for pure wisdom and pure beauty; the Christian love, which finds its source in tenderness and infinite pity; and the chivalric love, typified by Dante's own love for Beatrice. In this love there was no hope of attaining his beloved, but even after her death, it was her memory that he served...
This is the climax of Newman's thought as it is the end of all wisdom, - to know the living and the 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...