Word: climax
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conception of Harvard's attitude. If we understand the case aright, Harvard is today more nearly in a position favorable to her own interests than she has been at any time during the last few years. Heretofore scarcely a football season has passed without some disagreeable controversy. The climax came this year. If we may trust our past experience, then, the action which we took in withdrawing cannot be so bad in its consequences as pur continuation in the league another year would almost necessarily have been. If worst comes to worst under the present circumstances, our condition will still...
...Abbott took as his text, Matthews ix.: 22. The central idea of his sermon was that there is no purification without pain. The Bible, he says, dwells upon the remission of sin, rather than of penalty. Christ was a suffering God, for suffering is not imperfection, but the climax of character. It is suffering that reconciles man to God, and good men and bad men can be brought together only by mutuality of pain. The message then, of the New Testament, is that God stands knocking at the gate, suffering when we sin, and ready to receive us into...
...issued to-day is one of the best of the year. The editorials are smoothly written, although they lack some of the vigor usually found in the editorials of the paper. The first article is "A Story of the South," a piece of composition of a high order. The climax of the story is very thrilling and the incidental dissertation of Mexican scenes are realistic. "The Swiss Yankee" is the title of an admirable bit of descriptive writing. The Swiss landscape in all its peacefulness and silent grandeur seems lying stretched out before the reader, while the account...
...last number, "Where Prophecy Failed," is a story not marked by any particular brilliancy or beauty. Among the "Items" is a neat little anti-climax called "Lines to My Lady...
...Peerless Tennis Racket, the Climax, the Cambridge, (a new pattern), and others, all at a 20 per cent. discount from retail prices...