Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard none are more healthy and more to be commended than that afforded by the annual play of the Cercle Francais. The work involved in preparing for the public performance brings the members of the society together in a very pleasant way, and by uniting them in a common interest for the study of French literature indirectly stimulates interest in the courses given in that department...
...world is coming to believe in Jesus as a social ideal because it believes in him as a man. He was through and through a man, imbued with the common life. He submitted to every conceivable injustice and finally to an ignominious death. During the first part of his ministry he had dreams of a national revival. His career was as truly political as that of Wendell Phillips. His sermon on the Mount was a political document...
...attain to perfection. The Christian is the man who makes the problem of his life the bearing away of the sin of the world. This is not the denial of life, but the denial of self. The things of life are made sacred by being consecrated to the common good. By sacrifice the life is saved, and made morally whole. Human progress has tracked its every step in the blood of those who have been outlawed and put to shame in the world's behalf...
...find figures carved in relief. Some of these suggest, though roughly, figures in the frieze of the Parthenon. In the Attic monuments we find the hoplite, the sailor perched on the prow of his vessel, the child at his mother's knee, and other equally lifelike pictures. Most common are the scenes of parting, where two persons are saying goodbye. One of the most interesting represents a hunter with his dog, saying farewell to his wife...
...Harvard Religious Unioin is oranized to unite students of the University in a mutual interchange of religious thought and a common search for religious truth. It does not infringe on the province of the other religious societies. It relizes on the contrary, their essential importance. Yet it believes that there are many students who, though seriously concerned with religious thought and aims, do not feel themselves at home in the Evangelical Societies...