Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hall first summarized his two previous lectures, and briefly discussed the two most prominent views of an underlying unity--the evolutionary and theological theories of Seneca and the Apostle Paul. He then considered the arguments against a belief in a race unity, and at the same time brought forward strong and convincing proofs of some connecting link between all human races...
President Eliot delivered an address at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon on "Just Reverence Consistent with Genuine Democracy." He showed that in order to have a true belief in permanent democracy it is necessary to understand that democracy does not destroy reverence, but increases it in an altered form. The democratic reverence is not a reverence for symbols, but for the facts behind the symbols; an estimate of the true value. The great movement of the world today is towards democracy, which one hundred years from today will exceed any present conception. If the democracy of this great country...
...comes an estimation of the true value of the facts represented. We see that the symbols represent the true type that we demand. There is no diminution of reverence of the true God and the power of the University. True reverence is perfectly consistent with genuine democracy, and a belief in this fact is necessary to the attainment of the ideal democracy...
...following general methods of treatment of the ordinary, acute injuries were adopted: There was almost no fixation of injured parts, except fractures and dislocations, throughout the entire season, as the men were anxious to return to play and it was our belief that fixation usually unduly prolongs the time of convalescence. In the ordinary sprains of joints and notably in the cases of acute knees, heat was used very extensively, either by means of hot bathing or by means of the "baking machine." A large part of the acute injuries were treated by massage, with most remarkable and satisfactory results...
...Lymann Abbott, D.D., spoke in Appleton Chapel last night on "Christianity." In comparing Judaism and Christianity, Dr. Abbott showed how the two were really the same, how a belief in Jesus was the flower of the older conception. Christianity is not only the striving of man towards God, but it is also the striving on the part of the Father to find man. The difference between Christianity and all other religions is this belief in God seeking humanity. In his desire to win "lost souls," for the term means merely souls which have not yet been found, God is performing...