Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Wendell has no author or group of authors that he is especially bent on praising or dispraising. Some individuals, as is natural, he handles better than others. His estimate of Edgar Allen Poe is excellent for its swift comprehension. And it is quite in contrast with the treatment that Poe has received from many impressionistic critics. This chapter and Professor Gates's essay supplement each other...
...belief that religion should concern itself with the salvation of individual souls is losing its primary importance. The theory, started by the Oxford movement sixty years ago, that Christianity should study to better the economic and social conditions of great bodies of men, considered as wholes, is growing. All true philanthropy belongs to Christianity, because all movements that stimulate social progress are the working out, whether directly or indirectly, of Christ's spirit in the world...
...advance Christ's kingdom. Men must not secularize common work. Literature, science, commerce, business, those all stand under the pale of religion, and men of business and of the world, though they be of varying creeds, are parts of Chrait's one Catholic Church if they are trying to better society and influence...
...might be advised to follow: First, live in the open air all you can; second, touch elbows with the rank and file; third, talk every day with some one who is your superior. The second of these rules, especially, is not observed here at Harvard. It would be better if we were on good terms with all sorts of people, instead of assuming so often our own superiority. The rank and file turn out a pretty good sort of people, and to associate with them good naturedly and intelligently only tends to broaden our horizon, and to give...
...that he gave. Dr. Peabody spoke feelingly of the unconstrained relations between the Dean and his pupils, and gave an appreciative description of Dr. Everett as he appeared to his friends. He was a man of great clearness and loftiness of moral vision. He seemed to see and realize better than other men the high spiritual mysteries and truths of theology and poetry; he was one of the pure in heart who "shall see God." "Simplicity of character, charity of mind, purity of heart," were Dean Everett's characteristics. "The life of the spirit was his habitual abiding place...