Word: calls
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...story of sorrow, told creditably yet lacking power. Mr. Whitman's "Chamburlesque" I cannot estimate fairly without reading the work it parodles--and this, if the parody is just, I should be sorry to do. If I were judging the story by itself, I should be tempted to call it capable but vulgar...
Professor Peabody spoke of a certain reserve and dignity which surrounded Phillips Brooks, so that no man felt that he could call him an intimate friend, and yet, in his sermons, he gave his whole being to his hearers. No other man's sermons were ever wrought with such thought and care. They all went through three stages, the note-book, the compendium stage, and then the finished arrangement, so that his intellectual preparation and logic made a track, as it were, for the rush of his rhetoric. Complete as was his plan and outline, he spoke with such spontaneity...
Jesus Christ is the great representative leader of men, and is today the hope of humanity, and the unifying force in this complex whole that we call humanity. In him are combined in largest measure the singleness of motive, the unalterable directness of will, the blamelessness of life and the fellowship-even absolute oneness-with the Divine...
...call the attention of your readers to the observance today of the anniversary of the birthday of Phillips Brooks, both at morning prayers in Appleton Chapel and in the afternoon at the Phillips Brooks House? At the regular University Tea there will be music by the University quartet soon after 4.30 o'clock, and Professor Peabody will make a few remarks...
...speaking of vocation, he said that a man who has gained this sense must guard against letting it separate him from the crowd: his first duty must be to show other men that they too have a call. That great failure in leadership, Napoleon Bonaparte, had the fault that he saw only his own star of destiny, and there came a time when other men failed to see that star. Men of vocation, to use their power must fit in with other men of vocation. The alliance of Wash- ington and Hamilton: of Lincoln with the members of his cabinet...