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What is Worth While? Insights for Your Spiritual Journey focuses on the true meaning of life and what is the purpose of life, as well as how to separate and concentrate on what is truly meaningful and significant in this life. This compact volume speaks with the resonance that many books and talks aim to achieve. What is Worth While? By Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay, Ph.D. is the print version of an address given to a group of college alumnae that offers spiritual wisdom and guidance, with the aim of sharing the meaning of happiness, what our life purpose is, and how to be happy.
"What is Worth While?" This fascinating little book, written in 1893, starts out with, "Only one life to live! We all want to do our best with it. We all want to make the most of it. How can we best get hold of it? How can we accomplish the most with the energies and powers at our command? What is worth while?" It was penned by Anne Robertson (Brown) Lindsay, the first woman to earn a doctorate from Penn State University. She wrote a number of books on theological topics, most of which were published in the early-1900s.This particular book is both inspirational and motivational. It addresses the questions faced by students as they graduate from college, and was actually given as a speech to the Philadelphia branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.
Writing in 1749, Benjamin Franklin called for the creation of an educational institution in Philadelphia in which academic pursuits would be devoted to practical application for the greater good. That institution became the University of Pennsylvania. And while Franklin may not have anticipated it, since they first stepped onto campus the women of Penn have taken his concept of enlightened service and made it their own. This volume, published to mark the 125th anniversary of the first women students at Penn, depicts some of the struggles and successes of the University's female pioneers. While girls were part of Franklin's early affiliated Charity School, society at the time dictated their e...
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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