Word: understandables
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...society regrets that it cannot ask all the students to the reception, but as it is to be held in two rooms in Grays it is necessarily limited to Episcopolians. Any who have not received invitations should understand that the list was incomplete and that it is hoped that they will come...
...some special message or who instituted some needed reform. The prophets stand for just the opposite of what the priests do. Their work is to progress and to lead the world out of its old faults. So they are not in sympathy with the priests and the priests cannot understand them...
...third type is a kind that the prophet cannot understand, namely, the philosopher. He draws himself out of the work and rush of life, putting aside all personal feelings, and looks for the truth very quietly. We are not passing from one of these types to the other. They are no at all alike but they can live and work side by side. All three types are needed, the priest to preserve the good of the past, the prophet to help us on, and the philosopher to help us find the truth. The perfect man will be the one combining...
...generally happened that when a nation has had an overruling desire for one thing it has found that for which it desired. Every age,- the period of Crusades, of the Reformation, and of the Renaissance, has had one dominant enthusiasm, sometimes hard to understand, but if national, always having a lasting effect. The Renaissance is the only period where pictorial art was the chief form of national expression and so it is but natural that this time should have brought out the best works...
...half past seven this evening, arrangements will be perfected for a system of reports on philological periodicals, and on books relating to linguistics and literary history. It is important that members of the Graduate School and other advanced students who are connected with the Modern Language Departments should understand the scope of these reports and should avail themselves of the opportunity to take part in forming them. Graduate students of the modern languages who have not yet connected themselves with the conference should lose no time in becoming acquainted with its objects and sharing its advantages. The meetings are fortnightly...