Word: afar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weekly service at Appleton Chapel last evening was conducted by the Rev. Theodore G. Williams of New York. He chose as this text the first and second verses of the one hundred and thirty ninth psalm, "Thou hast me searched and known; yea all my thoughts afar to thee are known." The worldly estimation of character he said, is made by expert judgment; but God alone knows man's true character. The choir sang Gilbert's "A wake thou that sleepest," Selby's "I will magnify thee," and "As now the sun's declining rays," by Barnby. The service closed...
...left, with a blunt sword in his hand. Between the two, but at a safe distance, stands the umpire. Just behind is an attendant with a basin of water, a sponge, and a chair, while the doctors hover round the group like vultures scenting slaughter from afar. The buzz of conversation in the ring is immediately hushed as the umpire calls Silentium, zur Mensur! and announces that two members of such and such Verbindungen will fight for 15 minutes. Then one of the seconds gives the word to cross swords; and as the two figures in the middle stand with...
...students of the Worcester Technology took a horse up two flights of stairs and placed him in one of the pews in chapel. It took the president, professors and a large body of assistants to get the beast down on the following evening, while the students stood afar off and laughed...
...with individual athletic culture so with inter-collegiate contests; the student holds opinions about them differing diametrically from those of the faculty. He wishes to employ professional trainers; to arrange trial contests with the most formidable opponents, amateur or professional; to bring antagonists from afar; and to provide the necessary funds by holding the contest in cities remote and inconvenient, but whose residents are more liberal with gate-money than would be the home assemblies. He wishes to make these contests the event of the college year, and to subordinate to them study and examinations-anything and everything. He wishes...
...after that time it is most potent to rouse all the innate evil of which that savage breast is capable. Study is quite impossible when a tuneful youth, lost in musical devotion, is giving vent to a series of efforts which cannot but be easily heard even from afar off. When more than one is performing, as sometimes happens, the effect is indescribable-it is really unique. But, in all seriousness, men ought to be more careful how they break the rules in this respect, for any such violation results in a great deal of annoyance to their neighbors. Because...