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... problem has little to do with the combatting of disease , and a great deal to do with foster- ing the increasing ... problems or the enrichment of its life . There is an old fashioned saying , " Food for 4 The Freshman Girl.
... problem has little to do with the combatting of disease , and a great deal to do with foster- ing the increasing ... problems or the enrichment of its life . There is an old fashioned saying , " Food for 4 The Freshman Girl.
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... problem will never be solved ? Are you " setting the noblest free , " your best impulses , your most earnest purpose , your highest ideals , realizing that the art of living , with its supreme revelation in the life of Jesus Christ , is ...
... problem will never be solved ? Are you " setting the noblest free , " your best impulses , your most earnest purpose , your highest ideals , realizing that the art of living , with its supreme revelation in the life of Jesus Christ , is ...
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... problems of the century is that of world relationships . How is humanity to live in the days to come the days before ... problem rests upon the United States of America . In other words , as a nation , are we going to be a worker for the ...
... problems of the century is that of world relationships . How is humanity to live in the days to come the days before ... problem rests upon the United States of America . In other words , as a nation , are we going to be a worker for the ...
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... problem , a problem which usually arises the second month of her life on the campus . During the first month dormitory life is something of a lark , and she experiences a sense of exhilaration in getting acquainted with her room , the ...
... problem , a problem which usually arises the second month of her life on the campus . During the first month dormitory life is something of a lark , and she experiences a sense of exhilaration in getting acquainted with her room , the ...
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... problems of physical , one might almost say nervous , adjustment because they mean that the two nervous systems must ... problem appears . The ideals of two girls may be so different that what seems utterly and absolutely right to one ...
... problems of physical , one might almost say nervous , adjustment because they mean that the two nervous systems must ... problem appears . The ideals of two girls may be so different that what seems utterly and absolutely right to one ...
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Page 38 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Page 129 - A third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Page 38 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 25 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 68 - So was he lifted gently from the ground, And with their freight homeward the shepherds moved Through the dull mist, I following — when a step, A single step, that freed me from the skirts Of the blind vapour, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul...
Page 48 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Page 67 - From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.
Page 131 - Let the expression be the least thing in the world— speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers — but let it not fail to take place.
Page 37 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 73 - On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense.