Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compassionate love of God, whose power can turn aside the insidious as well as the open attacks of evil. The sermon was very impressive, particularly in the part in which the preacher described the power of the presence of God. The music sung by the choir included the familiar anthems: "I will always give thanks," by Calkin and "Enter not into Judgment," by Attwood, with the beautiful hymn, "Now the day is over...
Professor F. G. Peabody conducted the customary services at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took as his text the familiar passage, "Wake to yourselves, friends of the mammon of unrighteousness." The sermon was scholarly, impressive and full of interest. Professor Peabody said by the mammon of unrighteousness was meant the temporal business affairs of every-day life. We must regard them as an enemy, or a master, or a friend. Treating these matters as inimical, we violate the divine injunction to be faithful in the best of things. By allowing them to lead and control us we no longer serve...
...this respect as conditions of admission to college. It appears that, with the exception of Yale College, all the leading educational institutions of New England have united with Harvard in the movement, and have issued identical lists of the literary works with which freshmen are required to be familiar. So far as the purpose of this endeavor is concerned we have only the heartiest approval to express. We hold a thorough mastery of the English language to be the one thing absolutely essential to the education of English speaking men, and we regard the literature of the English language...
...America and within a few miles of Lexington and Concord? Is it not a strange teaching that you give, by implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must...
...that if men are sent who combine common sense with intense earnestness it makes no difference whether they are speakers or not. The object of the deputation work is not exhortation or the discussion of theological problems, but simply to provide a means of stating personal experiences in a familiar manner. Athletic men have taken hold earnestly-a fact which has set students thinking, for they know that here, certainly, there can be no cant or hypocrisy