Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...asked for the best room in the house for His last communion with His disciples, so today He stands asking us all for our best room. The promises He made that night have been the basis of the hope and prayers of His followers ever since. Let us yield Him our best room, our best efforts, and He will inspire us with lofty aims and steadfast courage. Mr. William L. Whitney sang "Tears of grief, shame and anguish," from Spohr's "Calvary," and the choir sang the "Chorus of the Sons of Japhet," from Rubinstein's "Tower of Babel...
...which human beings are sent into the world and of the rewards which follow the fulfillment of those purposes. The world is a training school for the enlargement of our lives. A higher level of existence is promised to all sorts and conditions of men if they will yield obedience to the laws which God has established. We are measured not by the situations in which we find ourselves, nor by the possessions we have, but by the growth our souls make in faith, hope and love. It is well for us if we make use of the matchless opportunities...
...gives up its rights and abandons its claims. (a) We have already refused more favorable offers.- (b) We yield in the head-lands controversy.- (c) Nothing is said of indemnity for outrages: Wharton's Digest, S 305, 305a; Boston Advertiser, Feb. 23, 1888; U. S. Foreign Relations...
...should have been very glad if the author had explained what was meant by the "scientific method" in that connection. He states that the human mind has but one way of learning anything, and that the method which he advocates is the only method in philosophy which can yield a ground of settled convictions. This method would modernize philosophy, he believes. Now, if we young men are taught anything, it is that we should seek as many independent points of view as possible. It is true that one of the ablest philosophers in Boston recently stated that physiological psychology...
...typical college senior of both sexes. "Composite photographs of college classes should furnish more important evidence as to the value of this method of typical representation than any which could be derived from composites of less closely related groups. Will all the senior classes of the same college yield the same composite face? By comparing the photograps any one can see at a glance that this is not the case. There is a difference as distinct as the impression which different classes make on the minds of their instructors or fellow students. The class individuality asserts itself...