Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George A. Gordon preached as Appleton Chapel last evening. He found his text in I Thessalonians 5: 19. "Quench not the spirit." He said that every right young person stands on the threshold of life in admiration and awe. The vastness and solemnity of the structure before him, and the instinct sympathy of the young with the divine thought, unite to rouse reverence in him. If this spirit were permanent there would never be any gratifying of the lusts of the flesh. But as we grow old, we lose our delicate susceptibility to the breathing spirit of God. We quench...
...Abraham," from Mendelssohn's "Elijah," was powerfully rendered by Mr. D. M. Babcock of Boston, a member of the class of '77. The Rev. Francis G. Peabody delivered the address, his text being taken from the third chapter of Revelations. We are as men who stand on the threshold of knowledge, but who do not enter. The door lies open, but we have not the courage to advance and explore the unknown regions. The possibilities and chances of life are of two sorts. Those we strive after and desire to possess, and those to which we turn a deaf...
...well,- how well the "finals" only can show. But leaving aside the question of studies, which concerns, after all, only individuals, we must stop for a moment to consider the state of the athletic interest, which concerns the university as a whole. We are, practically, upon the threshold of our season of out-door practice. A winter of unusual duration and severity has kept our crews and teams closely confined in the gymnasium, while their rivals at colleges more happily situated have been for some time at work in the open air. Our crews, it is true...
...said, standing on the threshold of an era of better things. In the days of our college career. We were want to consider a gymnasium as extremely well supplied with apparatus if it contained a few pairs of dumbbells and Indian clubs, with the addition of a pair of parallel bars, and a horizontal bar: now, upon entering a gymnasium fitted up according to modern ideas, one is fairly bewildered at the maze of complicated apparatus which meets the eye. Bathing facilities were rare, in the old days: now no gymnasium is complete without its copious supply of water...
...threshold of a now year it is well to make a slight review of the past, to see if we cannot gain some inspiration from it to aid us in the future. Considered in an athletic point of view, the past year has been moderately successful;-to be sure we put the Mott Haven Cup again to our credit and earned all the rowing events in which we were represented, but in base-ball and foot-ball, the sports in which the popular interest is especially centered, we were weighed in the balance and found wanting. It is easy...