Word: striving
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attitude of the church to the Master's call to work. Philip, with low ideal of the service required, but great willingness to work, cannot accomplish the desired result; Andrew, on account of his lofty ideal of the service needed, has his energies paralyzed, and does not even strive for the desired end. Jesus answers the question by action simply, working through faith in God the fullness of His mercy. The choir also sang, "Christian, the evening waits before thee," by Shelley; "The souls of the righteous," by Foster...
Further you can serve the college by a wise course of elective studies. This freedom is the greatest advance made yet by any American college, and although its utility is doubted by outsiders it is apparent here at Harvard. In our work, moreover, we should strive to have some ideal; seek to cultivate a just independence of thought, and to go beyond what other men have learned. A university amasses human knowledge, stores it up and bids its students push a little farther into study...
...world wags, and the mighty strive and are conquered...
...Greek can be studied here with admirable facilities; so can all the languages and all the sciences, and the best of all is that good as are the helps and high as are the standards, nobody has such a conceited estimate of them as not earnestly to strive to make them better. Knowledge is here thoroughly humble over its own ignorance; it knows enough to know its own limitations. The college life is so vigorous as to spend nearly a million dollars a year, and still feel wretchedly pinched in every department by poverty. And the mental life...
...They dictate to their employers, whose business they strive to rule; (b) they have sanctioned violence, and even aided in murder; (c) they persecute non-members; (d) they prevent the employment of capital, cause stagnation of business, and, hence, great loss of wealth; (e) they drive many of their members to crime and dissipation through loss of employment.- F. W. Taussig on south-western strike in Journal of Economics, Jan. 1887; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13, 1887: Nation, Vol. 42, pp. 338, 401, 402, 418, 440, 441; also Vol. 43, pp., 469, 470; Boston Herald, March 21, 1886; Bradstreet...