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...understand that there are other obstacles besides a lack of funds in the way of a new dining-hall,- that, on general principles, there is a serious opposition in the governing boards against any such undertaking by the University itself. It is said that the business now carried on by the University authorities is immense, and that the addition to this of the complicated management of a new dining-hall would be unwise. It is advocated that private enterprise be allowed to solve the problem of giving food to those students who cannot be accommodated in Memorial, just as private...
...present system. As a change was necessary there seemed no better course than to adopt the pronunciation which according to sufficient evidence was, so far as any approximation can be made to a foreign tongue, really used by the Romans. We may be sure that a Roman could understand the words of the Latin play, though he might think they were spoken by a very barbarous people...
...things, I think, are clear: that it is impossible to put our finger upon the exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest which is perfectly comprehensible to us and which differs from our own only in being archaic...
...used, as meaning that which is not consistent with reason, there is no sense in such a statement; but what Augustine meant was that he believed something beyond what is natural or comprehensible. This must always be the case with our belief in God,- we can not know and understand Him, and any doctrine that professes this is obviously false. To know God, faith is necessary-we must believe what we cannot...
...whole, becoming more intelligent. As in everything else the minister must help here to turn public opinion into the right channels. A minister can not preach mere sentiment on matters of law, but to talk reasonably and to influence his congregation in the right way, he must understand thoroughly such points as are likely to arise. It is sometimes said that ministers should not concern themselves with the laws of this world but should rather seek to teach the people the laws of the spirit. This is a very wrong point of view. The minister has always stood and will...