Word: asks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attention and no active interest in politics, the possessors merely of brutal cash, they have become one of the most serious problems of the church. The solution of these problems, the church finds in the priesthood of the laity. This is the reason that it has the right to ask college men to be earnest and to follow the example of such men as George Frisbie Hoar, whose name is to be mentioned reverently, and with bowed head...
...most immediate answers, and it is not necessarily a good thing to get an immediate answer, provided the question is so put as to make us think. When he was a schoolboy his master, whom he at that time thought a not very wise schoolmaster, used to ask him in which century and in which country he would most have preferred to live. Although at that time his answers varied and were inconsistent, he was sure now. The century would be the twentieth century, and the place the cities of the English-speaking races; this side the Atlantic...
...then spoke on the place in the University of the Chapel, which, he said, teaches a unique lesson in Christian unity. For twenty-three years there has been no question here of ecclesiastical polity or government, no ritual--none of the things which create religious division. Many people may ask whether religion can remain where these things do not exist. What remains is freedom, the very breath of the University life! But more, "Here abideth faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." Religion, as the prophet Micah defined it, remains here. "What doth the Lord require...
...missed by anyone interested in athletics or in physical development. The two Japanese who will demonstrate the art are among the most expert in Japan, and the art itself is so wonderful as to seem miraculous. I hope any one that feels interested will come forward, and ask how it feels, for without the least danger--the Jiujitsu men are very careful--he will experience a great sensation. JOHN F. PRBKINS...
...thinking, the greatest social services which one man can render to his fellows are, first, improving their moral standards or the ideals which rule them, and secondly, improving the conditions of their daily labor. Tonight I ask your attention to the second of these forms of service...