Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whom no one can suspect of being intellectual degenerates, and yet they" he adds, "and they only, are the Harvard instructors who have taught for ten years or more at Radcliffe. Surely Professor Wendell's opinion is strangely at variance with the facts, and perhaps we need not yet despair of the University...
...THOSE who cannot go to Poughkeepsie need not despair, for they can see the race in all its details in Huyler's window, 146 Tremont street, Boston. Immediately after the race the boats will be placed in the order in which they finish...
...lost when Adam fell. There was another vesper hour, when Christ called unto Himself the sick to heal them of their wounds. And He is still bringing His healing power to the spirit of man today. He gives joy for sorrow, and peace for despair. It is better to live upon the heights of our time than in the lowlands of antiquity. Let us thank God for all these blessings, and, above all, for the Christ who made them possible...
From now on it was simply a question of time. July 4, 1863, Vicksburg surrendered and five days later, when Banks captured Port Hudson, the great river highway was open. Grant's reputation was made, and the first chill of despair crept over the Confederacy...
pelled, there is no despair. Again and again he went out into the world to lift up mankind, to do them good and make them better, but he was always repulsed. There was, however, no relaxation of endeavor; the Evangelist tells us simply that he went to other villages. He could do no more than work on, weary and sad at heart and go down to the darkness of death with an apparent failure...