Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Huntington then spoke of the importance of high motives and the value of the power of resistance...
...seventh number of the Advocate must be considered one of the best that has appeared this year. "One of the Unfit" is of exceptional merit. It gives proof of a power of analysis possessed by few and of an ability to make details and accessories contribute to the general tone of the story which gives it, in spite of its melancholy, a strange charm. The story has many points of resemblance with the "Decadence of Arthur Helmer" by the same writer in one of the last year's Advocates. It is fully equal to it, if it is not better...
Cornell has received a twenty-horse power generator for the mechanical department, from Mr. Edison...
Under the heading "Government of the University" is recorded an act passed by the Legislature, March 13, 1889, to enlarge the power of the President and Fellows of Harvard College to hold valuable real estate. The passage of this act was suggested by the complication which arose at Cornell in connection with the Fiske-McGraw legacy...
...always have doubts in anything that we attempt, and when the end of life comes. surely there must be in the consciousness of every man the fear that he has not taken the advantages of the best gifts of God. By believing God's power is in our experiences, we must force them to elevate our souls. We must wrestle with them till they have given us all they have to bestow on mortal lives...