Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Borne in the breath of the soft eveaway...
...world. Another mental trait which University life ought always to develop is independent thinking. Let a man think about the thoughts of wiser men but let him think for himself. Such a man will be self-regulating-quiet but strong-minded-not to be blown about by vulgar breath. Though such a man be reticent, his character will impress the casual observer as strong, pure and honorable. Though he never speak a word of exhortation, he will have the influence that is quiet, solid, visible. Every man here has an influence and is responsible for it. During the last twenty...
...that it appears that the members of the Corporation Committee have never wished to give up the Tree exercises but only to modify their objectionable features, does it not seem that a great deal of breath has been wasted, not only wasted but wasted unbecomingly? The Corporation does not seek to attack the interests of the student body. It is made up of men who by word and deed have shown that they have undergraduate interests at heart, and is not respect and duty to his elders one of the first qualities of every gentleman, above all of any Harvard...
...plays were first presented on the stage. Shakespeare himself played in it, taking the part of the Ghost. The character of Hamlet itself was first interpreted to our knowledge by Burbage, who could scarcely have been very pleasing, for we are told that he was fat and scant of breath. The next great Hamlets of the past that we know anything of are Betterton, Garrick and Kemble; but even though we have much to tell us how these actors looked and how they played their parts, we cannot get a very distinct impression of their impersonations. Actors are like...
...word of God to a heathen world, and to show by noble lives of self-sacrifice the power and beauty of the Christian faith. The needs of foreign fields are so much greater than those of the home fields that they cannot be spoken of in the same breath. In Christian countries every one has heard the name of God, every one knows what a church is and the opportunities for hearing the word of God preached are very many. In foreign countries where the gospel has never been preached there are millions of persons who have never even heard...