Word: current
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Board of Overseers, and Mr. John L. Sibley, for many years the college librarian, President Eliot refers to the voluntary attendance at prayers and the plans adopted for religious guidance of the students, and says that the success of the new method during the first three months of the current year has surprised those even who advocated it the most strongly. The officers and students of the college, and a large part of the thoughtful public, have manifested great interest in the enterprise; because they see men of eminence belonging to four different communions, meeting on broad, common ground...
...account of the department is complete without a mention of the Seminary. This important association technically called the "Seminary of American History and Economics," meets every Friday evening for two hours. The exercises consist of reviews of current historical and economic literature and the presentation and discussion of papers. During the fall months two live talks on current questions were given. The first was by Edward P. Allinson, a young lawyer in Philadelphia, interested in the reform movement in city politics there. Mr. Allinson gave a running epitome of his historical study of "City Government in Philadelphia." The second...
...remind our readers of the new regulation which requires all blue-books to be handed in before the first day of examinations. It is with a heavy heart and with deep regret that we broach the subject of examinations at all; but time moves on and the irresistable current of events brings us nearer every day to that great series of catastrophes that mar so large a part of two of the finest months of the year. As if to force upon us the consciousness of the nearness of these crucial tests, this new regulation requires us punctually to hand...
Yale university under the Dwight regime proposes to keep abreast of current industrial problems. Dr. Washington Gladden's course of nine lectures on the relation of the ministry and the church to social problems has been successfully inaugurated here this week. Dr. Gladden is a prominent representative of the increasing number of younger clergymen in the Congregational body who are not afraid to grapple with socialism and in the light of the gospel they preach, to unmask its errors and acknowledge its elements of strength. The present course of lectures is the outcome of a year's close study...
...Gladden dealt sturdy blows at the religious pessimism current in certain sections of the church to-day which teaches that Christ's work for humanity is practically a failure, and that the world is constantly growing worse. He repudiated the theory that the world is a wreck and that the utmost the church can do is to rescue a few here and there. The kingdoms of the world are yielding to the advance of Christ. In the industrial field he meets the most stubborn opposition, even here some of the most ominous signs tell of the presence...