Word: creed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just here on the part of Princeton laymen we would ask Dr. Holmes, when he is in good humor at his breakfast table, to explain to us how he can expect a dry creed ever to learn anything. A creed is a belief. How can a belief learn to be anything but a belief? As for Harvard being able to burn up the old beliefs, we doubt it. The truth is she is attempting to do so, and, unfortunately, giving us nothing in their place. - Mobile Register...
...creed that nothing ever learns...
...great whole of truth which it utters; if it does not it becomes untrue. Each star must quiver with the movement of the system, or it is a mere waif and stray of brilliance, living at random in the sky. Each article of faith must feel the creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation of the world. Each age in history must be conscious of all human history in whose embrace...
...pusilanimity of the ministers of fifty years ago in the anti-slavery agitation. Many reforms await the hand of the minister of to-day. The value of the spiritual above the material life, and the brotherhood of humanity, are the two things for the minister to teach. A definite creed is not necessary, if he puts before men the things which he feels would benefit them if they knew them. All considerations of money must be laid aside. The life of the man who cultivates himself for the sake of his fellow men, is the finesty. Not the misery...
...intellect, and comprehension, mingled perhaps with a small amount of common sense. In light of these facts, we are even bold enough to suppose, to hope, that the time will be, when President Bartlett and all the other advocates of sole faculty-government will have to abandon their creed entirely, or at least weaken it materially. Amherst, Princeton, and Harvard, have already recognized, or are beginning to recognize, the advisability of student representation and deliberation. Amherst has had a college senate, and yet, very strange to say, Amherst has found the plan successful. In fact, in most of the colleges...