Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...polo team practiced at Lower Mystic pond yesterday afternoon, where the ice has frozen since the last snow so that is clear and smooth. A scrub game was played with Somerville High School, which is said to have the strongest team in the interscholastic league this year. The Harvard team won easily by the score of five goals to nothing...
...POLO TEAM.- Practice on Lower Mystic...
Professor Peabody spoke before the members of the Religious Union last evening, upon "Christian Maystics." He said in brief: The mystic is one who stands in immediate relation with his God. Once called Musionists, the mystics through Emerson's influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature...
There is plenty of fine open country between Fresh and Spy ponds and toward Watertown, Belmont, Arlington and Mystic Lake, where the best advantages of cross-country running may be had without injury to anyone. Nor would the distance be too great if the hares would start directly for the open country...
Eckhart is one of the most noteworthy examples of the believers in early German mystic ideas. He was born about 1260, and after receiving a good education he entered the Dominican order, and became a preacher of no mean ability. His beliefs, though rather startling to his uneducated countrymen, were by no means new. He taught the Catholic religion, but he was so original and independent in his views, that his preaching became the thought of a soul alone with God. He arose to considerable eminence in Germany and held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken...