Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Greek 6 will finish Demosthenes' "Oration on the Crown" before the holidays...
Greek 6 begins "Demosthenes on the Crown" on Thursday...
Following is an extract from the Rev. Phillips Brooks' baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, from the text: "They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we are incorruptible...
...sought almost in vain. Plenty of these causes for hesitation and discouragement. Plenty of these signs of how much better the college might be than it is-and yet, in spite of every hesitation, I think your answer still would be that here in college, on the whole, the crown which is incorruptible-the crown of character and service-is set before the eyes of men who are ready to see it, and the human powers are bidden to recognize in it, and it alone, their worthy goal...
Into that faith let us all enter. In it let us all abide. To them who live in it the incorruptible crown is always summoning the willing energies, and the willing energies, hearing their true summons, are always eager to respond. Beyond the little struggles always stretches the great race course with its shining prize-character and service. Nothing can satisfy the soul but them. The soul finds them when it finds God. The soul finds God when it finds them. May we all find them and God, and so attain the crown of life. Amen...