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...thinking of the shedding, not the use of blood after its being shed. He has in mind the self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan, who can look death in the face and say, "Where, O grave, are thy plagues," is victor over death and is redeemed from the grave. Jesus Christ was such a martyr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/11/1895 | See Source »

...lack of interest. Individual opinion and conjecture should sink out of sight below a great wave of hope and determination. Each one of us should see before him the picture of the game, the final struggle of the men who have faithfully served us this fall and every spark of manly feeling that exists here should be fanned to a ruddy glow by enthusiasm and loyalty, Not till we thus live and act can Captain Waters and his men look with a feeling of absolute confidence on the crowd of students who will line the Harvard side of Hampden Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1893 | See Source »

...Columbia College Dramatic Club is giving a series of benefit performances under the direction of Mr. Robert C. Sands. The club presents the following plays: Narcissa, William Penn, The Two Roses, The Electric Spark, Flunel, Corsican Legacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/11/1891 | See Source »

...hundred years ago to discover the nature of electricity, and we are doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires of an electrical apparatus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Trowbridge's Lecture. | 12/3/1889 | See Source »

WANTED.- Mate for a medium sized active thoroughbred horse, with high action. Color no object. Address W. B. Noble, 64 Spark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 6/3/1889 | See Source »

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