Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ought to have free coinage to protect the silver interest. We protect other industries and should not make an exception to the detriment of the silver men. We need an increasing currency to meet the constantly increasing demands of the business of the country. Almost the entire annual yield of gold is used in the arts, so that if we are to have more money it must be silver...
...special gift but is inherent in every character. Christ comes to man not to bestow upon him some new force, but to develop this force which already existed dormant within him. The question is will we be thus made whole-have our manhood rounded out? Will we yield ourselves to God and allow the divine will, which alone knows what our completed character should be, to work itself out in us? The anthem at the close of the service was the "Crucifix" of Faure, for male voices only...
...fall of Napoleon, when the confederation of the German states was formed. Up to 1848, however, there was virtually no constitution, as the bodies empowered to form one did not do so. The revolutions in all the other states in 1848 caused the monarchs of these states to yield, and a parliament representing the people was formed. In this the present German constitution received its inception. After the Austrian war the Reichstag was established. This body is elected by the people and represents them, while the Bundesrath represents the governments of the different states. The Reichstag is a single chamber...
...responsive reading of the 91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody preached a short sermon, basing his remarks upon the 19th and 20th verses of the twenty-first chapter of John, Jesus' seeming rebuke to Peter for his hesitation. Peter's hesitation and apparent wish to yield to another the responsibility of the call "Follow Me" probably arose from a sense of his own intellectual and morality incapacity. Thus it is with us. When we are called to the performance of some sacred duty, we first turn to the examination of self, and find that we have few of the qualities...
...idea of learning to play under the Rugby rules, and contesting with the Canadian teams which played by those rules. Then followed Harvard's effort to introduce this game in the other colleges, and particularly in Yale. Much opposition was met; but "in 1874 Yale began to yield, and in the following year her delegates met those from Harvard, and, after a stormy session, a combination was effected, and Yale and Harvard scheduled to meet in the fall and play a match under the rules adopted by this convention...