Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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To repeat, then, emotion and feeling will outlast argument. The parts of the Bible which have always had the most influence are those which contain passages of great beauty and mystery; and in the teachings of Christ we see the same truth. His power came largely from the fact that...
Perhaps the best lesson to be drawn from this is the value of living our lives as free as possible from the commonplaceness of every day existence. All of us live more or less with what we hope to be or to do, rather than with what we are; and...
The great danger in this gospel of emotion is that we shall mistake sentimentality for true feeling. Sentiment is always reserved and unconscious; sentimentalism is self-conscious and shallow, with an eye only for the picturesque. Emotion must not be overdone, but without it our lives would be cold and...
The Committee on the Reception of Students hopes that all Freshmen, and all other men who are at Harvard for the first time, will be present at a meeting in Sanders Theatre, to-night at 8 p. m. The meeting will be addressed by President Eliot, Mr. James Myers, Speaker...
A meeting for all members of the University, and especially for Freshmen, will be held on Friday evening, in Peabody Hall, Brooks House. At this meeting a representative from every religious society at Harvard will speak, outlining the purpose and opportunities of his societies, and thus giving new men a...