Word: committed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reap many times what we sow. A man may commit a crime in one night, which will take him his life and part of eternity to atone for. Abstinence from strong drink earnestly urged. Nine-tenths of our criminals are made by liquor, as well from the upper ranks of society as from the slums. Ignorance of what we are doing can make no difference as to the harvest. Disrespect for religious things can only work ruin in our own characters. No nation has prospered that has cast off the worship...
...19th century began with a more serious convulsion. In 1805 Henry Ware was chosen, after a long struggle, to the Hollis professorship of divinity. Once more we need not commit ourselves to his theology, nor to that which for many years after, remained the ruling theology of the university, in order to recognize that in that act and all which was connected with it, there was a true breaking open of the shell of dogma and a participation by the college thought in the more universal currents which were sweeping through the world. It was an opening of the truth...
Messrs. McCleary, Gould, Hall and Coolidge declined to commit themselves. The opinions on the other questions stood: 1. Favorable to coeducation, 6; opposed, 5. 2. Favorable to a change in marking system, 7; opposed...
...encouraged to obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general way about the cardinal points and the course of the sun and earth in the heavens. A mastery of this subject is given them, not by forcing them to commit the compass card to memory, but by telling them to find the direction of their own homes from the school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours with the pupils in the surrounding country, map in hand, and thus the meaning of the various geographical signs used...
...announced yesterday in History that the students were not expected to commit the 100 pages of the outline by heart...