Word: creation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...passed from the condition in which it consisted of a number of unrelated shools, into a well-organized university, having a common life which animates every part. This process involved the absorption of the College of Physicians and Surgeons as the medical school of the university and the creation of two schools of Philosophy and Pure Science to conduct the advanced work in philosophy, philology, and letters, and in mathematics and natural science...
...Saints. The Catholic Church denotes in its broadest sense all who are saints in Christ. The phrase, "Communion of Saints," also should be taken in its broadest meaning. It does not refer to monks and anchorites alone, but to all who now or at any time since the creation of man have lived up to the higher thought within them. All men are saints who carry lofty purposes into the business of every-day life. There can be no perplexity in regard to the redemption of the heathen or of mankind's living before the coming of Christ. Christ...
...work." Then the writer gives an awful picture of "the best all-round athlete that ever graduated from the Heminway Gymnasium," who "fell dead on the Harvard campus from heart disease." We are informed by the highest authority that no such accident ever occurred; the unfortunate was a fanciful creation of the writer's imagination. The sophomore very much overestimates the importance which the college authorities attach to athletic contests. He says that "especial leniency is shown in the class room and examination hall to men in training," etc. If he will look into the matter he will find that...
...noted in the number of public lectures given by members of the Board of Instruction. In 1891-92 there were 59 such lectures; last year there were 86. College conferences were discontinued last year, but an addition was made to the list of seminaries and conferences by the creation of a mathematical seminary...
Important as morality is, it would be of no avail without accompanying spirituality. As I have said, the one may exist without the other; but the essential of religion is the conviction of the existence of God in unity with man. Would you seek proofs of this, look to creation. The sun in his glorious course, the moon as she shines peacefully in the heavens at night, the roar of the sea, the growl of thunder and the flaring of lightning,- all are manifestations of God's presence. In early times my forefathers had no cathedral but the earth...