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...some expression of union in God, which is in turn followed by a hymn of gratitude, often substituted for the psalm of the English service. In choosing the psalm that one should be selected which best expresses the reigning sense of the day. The minister's duty is to teach to the people something of the present will and way of God that they may the better perform their duty...
...most powerfully effective of the influences for which he was seeking, where should he look if not to Religion? The sublimities and amenities of outward nature might suffice for William Wordsworth, might for him have almost filled the place of a liberal education; but they elevate, teach and above all console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind...
...wanted to teach Indian club swinging at the Prospect Union, Wednesday evenings, at 7.15. Please apply to me today between 12 and 1, at 27 Holyoke street...
...will sacrifice themselves for their country, it is to the coming generation that we must look for help. It is to aid in this cause that we are getting an education. College training is not for making men better able to make money than their fellows, or to teach them to be sharp enough to outwit those less fortunate than themselves, but it is to make men broader, nobler and stronger, morally and intellectually, so that when they go out in the world they may have something to sacrifice to the good of the country...
...length of syllables is determined beforehand and even common speech has a measured cadence, a musical quality, to which rhetorical composition carefully attends, so that certain sequences are approved and others not. This difference of effect has until lately been almost entirely disregarded. And even now though many schools teach the proper method of utterance theoretically, yet it is so foreign to English modes that very rarely is a person found who knows anything about the quantitative pronunciation of Latin practically. Boys know that some syllables are long and others short, but what that difference means to the ear they...