Word: portals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...begets, we feel too rarely the grand inspiration of righteousness as opening the way to truth; of character as the medium by which light can flow. "Blessed are the pure in thought for they shall see God." Are those words too lofty - too transcendant, to write on the new portal of the college yard? Would they be but a mockery of the baser thoughts of life, the lower ideas of learning which the wood contains. Alas for the college if that be so; for only when a great university cultivates character and insists on righteousness because so only...
...Over the portal of the door was writ...