Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year and a half, he came to the University by no means as a stranger. The hold which he at once gained upon the students was remarkable. At each succeeding service his power was more keenly felt and responded to, and his personal relations with the students seemed to strengthen marvellously the influence which he was already wielding. This influence has increased day by day and it cannot but endure after Dr. Herford's departure. In closing his pastorate here, Dr. Herford will realize, we hope, the place which he holds in the minds and hearts of the University...
...suppose. He does not ask surrender of the best of life, but calls to the higher life when men would choose the lower. He asks for souls, to make them richer and nobler than they could even dream of by themselves, and He wishes to strengthen and beautify, not merely to possess. Men are slow to realize that this sacrifice which seems so hard is infinitely the greatest blessing, that it means the exchange of a life of care and misery for one of highest happiness...
...Party Government is best for State and Nation; party municipal action tends to strengthen national party. - a) Good State and national appointments of officers in cities. - (b) A city may turn a State or national election. - (c) Political organization in cities assists State and national organizations...
...purpose of this club shall be to extend and strengthen Republican principles in Harvard University...
...husband. Harvard men will feel themselves thoroughly at home in reading the article for it is full of familiar pictures and drawings of the different places and people spoken of and the pen and ink and pencil drawings by William Goodrich Beal and Sears Gallagher do much to strengthen the warm sympathy created by the text...