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...this necessity; Harvard took the lead in organizing a Civil Service Reform Club; and her example was followed by all the leading universities. Harvard should continue to do her full share of the work as she has done in the past. The main object of the club is to awaken interest in the reform among the students and to teach them its methods, by means of public lectures, smoke talks, and reform publications; so that when they leave college they may take an intelligent and active interest in the work...
...hoped that this discussion will have some tendency to awaken student interest in the college publications. It is an undeniable fact that these papers do not have the influence they should here at Harvard. It seems to us that this is entirely due to the spirit of hostile criticism and lack of cordial support which prevails. The "most direct and lasting influence of college papers" is, of course, on their editors and through their untiring efforts our publications are, and have long been, the standards for the papers of other colleges. If this eminence is to be maintained the papers...
...credit of Ninety-Nine which has shown unusual strength in athletics, debating and all its class organizations, and the most class spirit and enthusiasm of any class which has been in college for a number of years, that it is endeavoring to introduce a practice which is intended to awaken greater interest among undergraduates in their class organizations and a more demonstrative loyalty to the College...
...mystics through Emerson's influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature of mysticism...
...present organization in America was started in 1891, under the direction of Bishop Huntington, Bishop Potter, and other prominent churchmen. Its purpose is to awaken the minds of all Christians, beginning with the members of the Episcopal Church, to the social problems of the present day and to the fact that their solution is to be found in the earnest study of present conditions viewed in the light of Christ's teaching. In the problems which confront the student the members of the Union are bound to no principles but those of the Christian law. They are exhorted to study...