Word: asking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...others. This consciousness of self asserts itself in our thoughts as well as in our actions. "We experience nervousness, for instance, when we are called upon to speak in public; we read a literary criticism in a magazine before we form an opinion about a new book; we ask the opinion of an intellectual scientist before we express our views upon religion." Again, in our social relationships in college life we are influenced too much by the opinions of others: perhaps we treat our friend with a certain condescension when we are in the company of those whom we consider...
...Theology of the Babists." In his talk on Monday the Kahn will explain the theological beliefs of the Habist sect, his last lecture having been devoted chiefly to the history of the sect. After the talk there will be an opportunity for those who wish to do so to ask questions...
...football situation has been so thoroughly discussed not only in the College publications but also in the newspapers outside, that I hesitate to ask you to print anything more on the subject, but I want to say a word or two bearing on your editorial of last Thursday in which you expressed your willingness to publish "such communications as may be useful in improving conditions...
...sometimes ask, without any note of criticism or scepticism, whether nations so uncivilized are in a state to accept Christianity. Were it not better, perhaps, to withdraw American missionaries from China, where their presence has been so unwelcome? It is only those lacking in knowledge who do not perceive the answers to both these questions. To begin with, Christianity has nowhere entered peacefully; and missionaries were not the cause of the late troubles in China, for though they did, it is true, combat the key-note of Chinese peculiarities, it was the commercial greed of alien powers and the political...
...What are officials for in a football game?" was asked by many spectators last Saturday. The slugging was open, wholly undisguised from the beginning to the end of the game. Does anyone doubt that public opinion would sustain an umpire or referee who, at the first manifest instance of this kind, should order the violator of the rules off the field? At one football game last year I saw an Englishman beside himself with righteous wrath at one instance of this kind, and heard him plainly speak out his mind. The matter was so notorious at the recent game that...