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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...ts, who, however, did all they could to give him a good education: they sent him to the college of the Jesuits, of which society he became a member ... ...s ended; and the dispensation of universality is begun. And then I will myself become a Wesleyan Methodist, and preach Christ the Saviour of all. And...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...s. FOOTBALL ELECTION to Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 Manag^e Team in 1908 At a college meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909... ...hief. GhkaM) Mygatt iqoS, News Editor E. H. Wood icja^ At. I.. Eknst 1909, College N'oles. Alumni News. G ENOELiiAKn 3909, A. 1. Santky igtx), M.W.Mac... ...s due to the latter for its service not only to the publication but tu the college as a whole. The most notable service to the latter has been the est... ...eration of alumnus and student in presenting the news and sentiment of the college. Without the aid of various alumni correspondents there would be co... ...e. The last week of the season brought the chnnipionships. Af- ter beating Wesleyan by the sur- prisingly decisive score of 29 to 11 at iliddletown, i... ...ble incident described and dis- cussed in otlier columns. The victory over Wesleyan the follow- ing afternoon, after a close first half, assured Willi... ...resident. G. A. Townsend of Brown ; secretary and treasurer, R. W. Rice of Wesleyan. The championship for the past season was officially awarded to Wi... ... necessary to make possible a surplus. Al- though the gate receipts of the Wesleyan game were larger than usual, due to extensive ndvertis ing, the pr... ...s of last season's four prin- cipal games, Amherst, Dartmouth, Colgate and Wesleyan, to the col- lection in the trophy room in Jesup Hall. The jerseys...

...s distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain m...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ory over age 18 Elections: Tancredo Neves indirectly elected by an electoral college composed of members of congress and delegates from the state legi... ..., 2 representatives of the States of Alderney; States of Election (electoral college) elects Jurats and Conseillers it is composed of the Bailiff, 12 ... ...embers elected indirectly by functional constituen- cies and by an electoral college; Urban Council, consisting of 15 elected members and 15 appointed... ...980, President elected every seven years indirectly by a 5,000-man electoral college; last election February 1981; four-year National Assembly, electe... ...ate, House of Assembly) formally opened in January 1979; 80-member electoral college chose 40 members of lower house and 10 mem- bers of upper house; ... ... Ethnic divisions: Polynesian; about 300 Europeans Religion: Christian; Free Wesleyan Church claims over 30,000 adherents 243 Tonga (continued) Trini...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... ...vity. Their tumultuous loyalty and audacity appear in Coley’s letter:— ‘In college, stretching from Hexter’s to Mother Spier’s was a magnificent repre... ...dreadful pain for some time. Then came the Queen’s carriage, and I thought college would have tumbled down with the row. The cheering was really treme... ...t led him to choose, amongst his most intimate friends and associates, two collegers, who ultimately became Newcastle scholars and medallists. ‘That t... ...e principal part of it is built. Just in the centre of the cove stands the Wesleyan chapel. On the rising ground on the east of the cove is the Roman ... ...and prayed with another Maori. The latter is dying. He was baptized by the Wesleyans, but is not visited by them, so I do not scruple to go to him. Ro... ...ngland here is very much in the position of any one of those other bodies, Wesleyan, Independent, or Presbyterian; and though we have a Bishop at the ... ...te settlers in Fiji. I have made a little move in the matter. I wrote to a Wesleyan Missionary in Fiji (Ovalau) who sent me some books. I am told that... ... anxi- ety about the ‘labour traffic.’ ‘May 6th.—I am corresponding with a Wesleyan Mission- ary in Ovalau (Fiji) on a matter that you may see mention...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...ld Mr. Carey that he might do as he chose, and for his part he thought the Wesleyan Chapel would be an equally suitable place. Then Mr. Carey said tha... ...ng to say in the matter, and therefore nobody asked for their opinion. The Wesleyans and the Baptists both had chapels in the village. When Dr. Flemin... ...ent out of his way to express his satis- faction that he was going to that college. He pre- pared himself for a distinguished career. He moved in the ... ...orn in a Roman Catholic country as in England; and in England as well in a Wesleyan, Baptist, or Methodist family as in one that fortunately belonged ... ...had persuaded his people to let him come and study art instead of going to college; but at the end of that period he was to return to Seattle and go i... ...nner talked of a recent fire at Blackstable which had partly destroyed the Wesleyan chapel. “I hear they weren’t insured,” he said, with a little smil... ... . ” Most of the students took the curriculum of the Conjoint Board of the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians; but the more ambi- tious... ...e jaunt. Let’s go and spend a day at Oxford, shall we? I’d love to see the colleges.” He looked at her to see whether there was any shadow of reproach... ...o Oxford. He was at the ‘Varsity there, you know. He said he’d show me the colleges.” Philip remembered that once he had suggested going to Oxford for...

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Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

... have many religious friends and com- panions there; you are a Methodist—a Wesleyan, I think?” “Y es, my aunt at Snowfield belonged to the Society, an... ...bation. Y ou perceive that Arthur Donnithorne was “a good fellow”— all his college friends thought him such. He couldn’t bear to see any one uncomfort... ... than I’ve had, and I think your life has been a better school to you than college has been to me.” “Why, sir, you seem to think o’ college something ... ...u seem to think o’ college something like what Bartle Massey does. He says college mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold... ...bide anything harsh and was al- ways for hoping the best, held fast by the Wesleyans from the very first; but I thought I could pick a hole or two in ... ...ty it was o’ Conference; and if Dinah had seen as I did, we’d ha’ left the Wesleyans and joined a body that ‘ud put no bonds on Christian liberty.” “N...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... had an age-long talk about Edinburgh folk; it was very pleasant. He has been studying in Edinburgh, along with his son; a pretty relation. He told me... ...se it didn’t set up to be a book, only a long tough yarn with some pictures of the manners of to-day in the greater world—not the shoddy sham world of... ...alls my old proposal, which delighted Lady Taylor so much, that every divinity student should be thirty years old at least be- fore he was admitted. B... ... girl visitor). II. Story of a pair of scissors. III. St. Ives receives a bundle of money. IV. St. Ives is shown a house. V . The Escape. VI. Th... ... Business transacted, I have to gallop home and find the boys waiting to be paid at the doorstep. MONDAY, 5TH. Yesterday, Sunday, the Rev. Dr. Brown...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

... by the bye, in many respects the most comfortable, as well as the richest college at Oxford,—was the archdeacon’s most intimate friend and most trust... ...t of dissent, if so strict a mind can be called tolerant of anything. With Wesleyan-Methodists he has something in common, but his soul trembles in ag... ..., ha! Why, in the way we’ve left the matter, it’s very odd if the heads of colleges don’t have their own way quite as fully as when the hebdomadal boa... ...he hospital, Mr Harding, ’ began Mr Slope, speak- ing of it as the head of college at Cambridge might speak of some sizarship which had to be disposed... ...Is Mr Arabin married, papa?’ asked Griselda. ‘No, my dear; the fellow of a college is never married. ’ ‘Is he a young man, papa?’ ‘About forty, I beli... ...an early age he went to Winchester, and was intended by his father for New College; but though studious as a boy, he was not studious within the presc...

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A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...n so far as he is king of Samoa, I cannot find but what the president of a college debating society is a far more formidable officer. And unfortunatel... ... even the layman who does so is denied the sacraments. In the last war the college of Malua, where the picked youth are prepared for the ministry, los... ...the natives themselves. Soon after the German heads were taken, Mr. Carne, Wesleyan missionary, had occasion to visit Mataafa’s camp, and spoke of the...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

... helpmate, after a short pause, ‘than by the intro- duction, either of the college hornpipe, or the equally un- meaning and unfeeling remark of rump-t... ...d out of the window by the heels of his boots, for thirteen minutes by the college clock’ The Major might have appealed to his countenance in cor- rob... ...he were at that moment being overdone before the slow fire at the military college. Notwithstanding the palpitation of the heart which these allusions... ...’t leisure for it. We—we haven’t courage. They’re not taught at schools or colleges, and we don’ t know how to set about it. In short, we are so d - -... ...economy (she thinks the science is connected with dissenters; ‘Baptists or Wesleyans, or some o’ them,’ she says), but she can never understand what b...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

...nk—that she is not being educated properly here, that she ought to go to a College. As if we were keeping things from her….” The bishop reconsidered h... ...y think of—things in gen- eral.” The bishop reflected. “She wants to go to College.” “They want to go in a set.” 30 The Soul of a Bishop “I wonder i... ...llege.” “They want to go in a set.” 30 The Soul of a Bishop “I wonder if college can be much worse than school…. She’s eighteen—? But I will talk to... ...le,” that bearder of lightminded archbishops, that formidable harbourer of Wesleyan chaplains. For some minutes he studied the grim portrait of this i...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...unders McNitre, the Scotch divine; or the Rev- erend Luke Waters, the mild Wesleyan; or the Reverend Giles 84 V anity Fair – V olume Two Jowls, the i... ... the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked. He... ...usness. He said “he had come down for a couple of days to see a man of his college, and—and to pay my respects to you, Ma’am, and my father’s and moth... ...e came very communica- tive and friendly. He asked after James’s career at college— what his prospects in life were—hoped heartily he would get on; an... ... of which sum, when he had paid his own debts and those of Jim, his son at college, a very small fragment remained to portion off his four plain daugh... ...or a while. The dissenting shoemaker wanted Miss Briggs to send his son to college and make a gentleman of him. Between them the two families got a gr...

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Plain Tales from the Hills

By: Rudyard Kipling

...self, no one would have cared; but his grandfathers on both sides had been Wesleyan preach- ers, and the preaching strain came out in his mind. He wan... ...ir ‘scutcheons. Wressley would have made a very good Clerk in the Herald’s College had he not been a Bengal Civilian. Upon a day, between office and o... ... the son of a man with whom you have no concern—I who was once Fellow of a College whose buttery-hatch you have not seen. I was loathsomely drunk. But...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...tury; this second half of the fact is acknowledged by their opponents. The Wesleyan Methodists, that formidable power in England and Wales, who once r... ...m et Circenses. Yet he had enjoyed the benefits of an education in a Royal College, in a country which re- gards itself self-complacently as at the he...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...lum—old Methusalem.” Mr. Hodson laughed again. “The young men is home from college. They’ve whopped John Scroggins till he’s well nigh dead.” “Whop my... ...ved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. Once, when just from college, and when Horrocks the butler brought him a letter without placing ... ... punishment which it is generally thought none but a cherub can escape. At college his career was of course highly creditable. And here he prepared hi... ...t the prize poem, which all his friends said he was sure of. After leaving college he became Private Secretary to Lord Binkie, and was then appointed ... ...unders McNitre, the Scotch divine; or the Rev- erend Luke Waters, the mild Wesleyan; or the Reverend Giles Jowls, the illuminated Cobbler, who dubbed ...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...n- scendentalist cult. In that address to the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this wor... ...ce. On the previous night I had had, after getting into bed at my rooms in College, a vivid tac- tile hallucination of being grasped by the arm, which... ...hological simi- larity between the mind-cure movement and the Lutheran and Wesleyan movements. To the believer in moralism and works, with his anxious... ...cally indistinguishable from the Lutheran jus- tification by faith and the Wesleyan acceptance of free grace, is within the reach of persons who have ... ...nd a morning; and how true and right I was when in our philosophy- year in college I chewed the cud of bitterness with the pessimists. Yes, indeed, th... ...er. From Catholi- cism to Lutheranism, and then to Calvinism; from that to Wesleyanism; and from this, outside of technical Christianity altogether, t... ...ting your breast at the foot of a priest; you shall pass the carnival in a college of Jesuits to prepare yourself to receive bap- tism, ready to give ... ... to your own room and I will teach you.’ She professes to care nothing for colleges, or preachers, or churches, but only cares to listen to what God s...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...aracter. In the same way a student who has had to “get up” Shakespear as a college subject may hate Shakespear; and people who dislike the theatre may... ...evolutionary scale. At all events it is in the Socratic man and not in the Wesleyan that our hope lies now. THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT Consequently...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ntly with the Impe- rial Theatre after it had passed into the hands of the Wesleyan Methodists, unlicensed plays can be per- formed, technically in pr... ... much coarsely vulgar and fur- tively lascivious drama as we like. Under a college of cardinals, or bishops, or judges, or any other con- 43 Shaw cei...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...oldock’s secretary for the job; and 184 Rudyard Kipling Holdock, who is a Wesleyan Methodist, invited me to his house, and gave me dinner with the go... ...un of the P . & O. and Orient liners, and swore by our respective owners - Wesleyan, Baptist, or Presbyterian, as the case might be. I had only just c... ...class line regiment. He did not know that he bore with him from school and college a character worth much fine gold, but was pleased to find his mess ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...’t leisure for it. We—we haven’t courage. They’re not taught at schools or colleges, and we don’ t know how to set about it. In short, we are so d - -... ...economy (she thinks the science is connected with dissenters; ‘Baptists or Wesleyans, or some o’ them,’ she says), but she can never understand what b...

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