Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religion. Above all, these words of the text must be pondered on by those who come to college for the first time, for a new and truer life opens before them. They will not exhaust, in four years, the meaning of life; but they will meet with a new aspect of it, and though the old religion may not entirely disappear, it will be broadened and changed in the new. At college the new comer enters into a year which nothing that ever lived will bring back. Do not be afraid of truth or discussion; nothing will ever sorrow...
Professor J. W. White, chairman of the committee on athletics, gave a detailed account of the facilities for exercise and the advantages arising from it. Professor Lyon spoke of the religious aspect of the college. He showed how with the extension of elective studies came the demand for religious freedom, resulting in the present system of religious instruction. He dwelt on the value and need of the impulse from this source and the success already attained...
...plain from the crew manager's report at the freshman class meeting yesterday that Ninety-four is in a bad way. So serious an aspect have affairs taken that it seems doubtful whether the freshmen shall be allowed to go to New London. That such a doubt can exist for a moment is a disgrace to the class which is responsible for the present crisis. There is no use now, however, in blaming the class for what it has neglected to do. If it is any incentive for the class to look back on its record of illiberal giving...
...understand a religion we must know its growth, and the three things we should consider about christianity are its original principles, its promulgators, and its interpreters. Chief among the interpreters stands St. Paul. I shall speak of only one aspect of the career of this wonderful man; his public speeches; and tonight shall take up some of the most striking features of his enviroment...
...Second Look Backward" is a more or less pretentious sketch of the aspect of New York and the world in general in 2004 A. D. The "Great Nationalistic Party" is supposed to have united all North and South America and all the world under one government and a National Peace Festival is being held. While the story shows much boldness in design, there is too much of irrelevant and uninteresting in the sketch...