Word: heart
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While the Yale crew were rowing on the harbor last Tuesday afternoon, W. H. Corbin suddenly fell back in his seat in a dead faint. The cause of this sudden illness is heart disease and Corbin will be kept out of the boat for some time.- Boston Herald...
...Harvard representing other colleges, who last night effected a permanent organization with the express purpose of furthering the interests of the graduate department of the University. It is well known that there is no department here which those who have the welfare of Harvard most at heart desire to see built up and increased in effectiveness more than the graduate department. President Eliot gave official expression to this desire in his last annual report. There can be no doubt but that the members of the Harvard Intercollegiate club are placed in a position of peculiar influence, and will be able...
...blood, while struggling towards its constant goal in spite of the hostility of a whole continent, shows a heroic firmness. It is a remarkable fact that all the French governments of the past century have proclaimed their acceptance of the principles of the Revolution. The first Napoleon, though at heart opposed to the liberty of the people, found himself unable to withstand the current of events, and even claimed for himself many of the great reforms which the impulse of freedom produced. Even when the old dynasty returned in 1815 and attempted to sweep away all the effects...
...Imagine the 8,000,000 of children actually in attendance at the elementary schools of the country brought before your view. Each unit of that mass speaks of a glad birth, a brightened home, a mother's pondering heart, a father's careful joy. In all that multitude every little heart bounds and every eye shines at the name of Washington...
...know," he interrupts saying, "We know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?" Here we have a perfect illustration of the agnostic spirit of this age, a spirit the fault of which is that it is of the intellect rather than of the heart. There is a lack of faith. And so in the last scene in which Thomas appears, the one of the text, there is a lack of faith in all things which the testimony of the senses does not confirm. And this is the gravest fault of this age which is continually demanding...