Word: seeking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chapel services last night were conducted by Rev. E. E. Hale '39, who took as his text: "If thou shalt seek the Lord the God, thou shalt find...
...services in Appleton Chapel last night were conducted by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, head master of the Groton School, who took for his text, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto...
...officers out of a total of 300, and the experience of other cavalry troops was similar. Dr. Bowditch closed his lecture with a graphic account of army life. His troop seldom suffered from hunger, although the army rations were sometimes eaten under trying conditions. The individual should seek sleep and cleanliness as far as posible, and if not able to keep dry should at least keep up bodily warmth. The college man's superior usefulness in the field should come from his faithful devotion to the cause, from his readiness of perception, and from his undaunted youth...
...Rosenthal '98, the last Harvard speaker, took up and carefully considered the evils threatening our republican institutions from the present influx of ignorant and vicious foreigners. It is more important, said he, that we should protect these institutions than that we should seek to benefit the ill-conditioned and unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists...
...enlistment as the test of patriotism. It rather presents the possibility of the future necessity of enlistment, and is a warning to prepare for such emergency. It the war prove of short duration, such enlistment will not be necessary; if of long, then the service of those who today seek to prepare themselves for the possibility, will be needed, and they can offer themselves as so much the better fitted for duty...