Word: steadfast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Taking as his text James Russell Lowell's words, "My Life Shall be a Challenge not a Truce," he pointed out in a striking and forcible manner the vast good, men and especially college men can do by the example of steadfast and honorable living. He said it was principally for this purpose that the St. Andrews Brotherhood had been formed, and to this it has owed its great success in a large measure...
...life though ended so early and so sadly stands before us as a type to arouse ambition. It was that of a man whose pleasure it was to live among men and to unselfishly forward their interests; who considered nothing done unless well done, nothing won unless by steadfast effort...
...example to his fellow-citizens by his deep and steady interest in public affairs and his faithful discharge of civic duties. He had a most humane and kindly heart; he was active in many local charities and waf a constant and liberal giver to the poor. He was a steadfast friend and a helpful counsellor to everyone in doubt or trouble. The daily record of his life would be a record of kind deeds no less than of laborious study and exemplary performance of duty...
...Copeland read the opening of "Hyperion," the sonnets "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"; the odes "To a Nightingale," "To Autumn," "On Melancholy," and "On a Grecian Urn"; "Fancy," "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," "Robin Hood," and "Bright Star Would I were Steadfast as Thou...
...should it be forgotten that in the Faculty, in the important committees, and before the public, he has ever been the able and enthusiastic champion of graduate study and the steadfast defender of research; and this research, with characteristic impartiality, he has encouraged equally in all branches of knowledge...