Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this Christ for whom we are to work and to whom we are to give ourselves? John tells us that "in the beginning was the Word," not the Word began when other things began, but that then He already existed. Christ is eternal and He is everywhere. God has created us and loves us. Therefore when men do wrong Christ is ashamed and hurt just as a father is if his son sins. Christ, then, came into the world and took all our sins upon Himself and died that we might live, and in His death our sins are dead...
...Henry James, the third of the third of the apostles to the Philistines, we find a man as little of a reformer as Pater, but differing from him in his great love for the present. Most of the best imaginative writers of our day have received a word of praise from Henry James. He is as dangerous a model for young writers to follow as could well be found. He has so many subtle things to say that he often becomes deeply involved in the saying of them. In "The Tragic Muse," Mr. James's best known novel, he divides...
...highest manifestations. It is to this well-known school boy characteristic that Yale appeals, by occasionally sending her prominent men to the schools where they were fitted, to give advice on athletic matters, perhaps to disclose a new play in football, or a good trick in baseball, - in a word, to show the athletes that Yale is interested in them...
...learn about great things, Mr. Copeland said, was to read the words of great men. With the exception of the first rank of our great leaders, no one could be found who surpassed General Sherman. His letters to his mother, which extend over the remarkable period of half a century, were the word of a great man telling of great things. From them we might get most truthful and vivid pictures of the Civil...
...seventy and eighty in the Graduate School; and thirty-five in the Medical School. These men have come, not only from American colleges, but in some cases from the great English and European Universities. All of which goes to show that Harvard is, in the true sense of the word, a university, and to prove her right to be considered the leading institution of learning in America...