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...more favorable conditions. The "language sodalities," for ameliorating the language itself, are a further example of movements which were too exclusive and too theoretical. The attempted reform in the German vocabulary, which for the moment failed, was contrasted with the gains to English in the hands of a controversial master of style like Thomas Nash. Nash wrote with the nation for his audience and his changes (e.g. the introduction of words in the size into controversial English) were dictated by more practical considerations than occurred to the German theorists. But the indirectness and slowness of development in German literature...
...Peabody preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as the text for his sermon the fourth and fifth verses from the fifth chapter of St. Luke: "He said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all night and taken nothing; nevertheless at they word I will let down...
Peter was a "servant and an apostle." The paradox in this phrase is only seeming. Men must be obedient servants to God before they can be the friends, the apostles of the master; men must serve God's world and not themselves before they can reach the truest rewards. He that would follow me." Christ said to learn His love and be His Apostle, "Let him take up his cross and follow...
...Educational Conference. The Somerville English High School. Mr. C. T. C. Whitcomb, Head Master of Somerville High School. Sever...
...Educational Conference. The Somerville English High School. Mr. C. T. C. Whitcomb, Head Master of Somerville High School. Sever...