Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Life is like one great gymnasium where our various faculties are to be developed. However, more than athletes, we have enemies to confront, pain to bear, and burdens to lift. The soul is the one object which we own, and the rest is only secondary. The world exists that the divine company of human souls may rise and rise in strength. Those who subscribe to this view possess the best culture, and those who are true to this principal are cultured and none others. Culture is not in the possession of things mental and material, but the way in which...
...snow storm last evening, the number of people at the Globe Theatre was not perceptibly smaller than assembled there a week ago. Rev. George A. Gordon conducted the service, and preached a short and interesting sermon. The chapel choir sang three times during the evening-an anthem, "Lift up your Heads," by Hopkins, and the Christmas carols-"His Star Shineth Clear," by O. B. Brown, and "The First Nowell," an old English melody. The chorus of college men was not quite so large as last week, and did not sing with as much spirit as they did a week...
There was a very good attendance at vespers yesterday, notwithstanding the rain. Dr. McKenzie made a short address and the choir sang "Lift up Your Head" (Hopkins), and "I will Lay Me Down" (O. B. Brown). Mr. J. E. Ricketson, the well-known tenor, rendered a solo-"My Hope is in the Everlasting," from Stainer's "Daughter of Jairus...
...Russell, of Bowdoin College. has made a lift of 1170 pounds, which is the best ever made under the Sargent system...
...Lift Up Your Heads," Hopkins...