Word: finding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doing good work and making marked progress under the skilful instruction of Mr. Clarkson. Those with whom Clarkson is thrown in contact are unanimously of the opinion that the evil results supposed to be attendant upon the hiring of a professional coach are entirely fallacious. The most exacting could find no fault with the deportment and general bearing of our professional coach. There are four candidates for pitcher; to each of these Mr. Clarkson devotes one half-hour three times weekly. He also has charge of the catchers. The rumor that he was to be assisted by Arthur Irwin...
...doubt the power of Christ to regenerate the world from its very depths. The same slowness of growth in morality will last, the speaker said, until there comes a general acceptance of an idea of perfect righteousness; until men, seeking themselves, sensitive to every impurity, are willing to find the goal of their existence in true sainthood...
...prevent this, but they are unsuccessful in lessening the evil, as the laws are constantly distorted in order to be made applicable to almost any case. Where there are so many laws, there must be one which is superior to all the others, and it is our duty to find that one and to live under...
...that other university which is called the city of Boston. For every city is a university; every city has a great deal to teach, and has a great many illustrations of what are taught in other colleges; and we must not wonder if the men of today, who find themselves close to the streets of Boston, to its courts, its State House, its schools, its concerts, its theatres, its dances, its lectures, and its other opportunities for study or amusement, avail themselves often of what that university at their side has to teach...
...from the 19th chapter of St. Luke, verses 39 and 40, in which Christ's triumphant march into Jerusalem amidst the rejoicing and glorification by his disciples is told. Truth, said the speaker, is bound to be spoken in some places or other, and it is our duty to find it out. Students at college are continually coming into doubt as to the faiths, but let them hold firmly to their blind faiths at the same time that they are active in their search for truth in the various walks of life. Whatever our faiths are, let us lead true...