Word: doctoral
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...poetry, besides being a frequent contributor to the important magazines and periodicals. He was minister at the Brick Church in New York for several years, and has been on the board of Preachers of the University. Professor Van Dyke has the honor of having received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
...Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856. He graduated from Princeton in the class of 1879, studied law at the University of Virginia during the next two years and then for two years practised law in Atlanta. He received the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1886; his doctor's thesis on "Congressional Government" has often been reprinted. He was Associate Professor of History and Political Economy at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1888 and at Wesleyan University from 1888 to 1890. In the latter year he accepted the chair of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Princeton, which...
Throughout his lecture, Dr. Grenfell gave examples of how Christ's influence works itself out in the lives of men, with especial relation to the professions of doctors and lawyers. Christ teaches that the effective use of learning is not simply intellectual, but that like our life the important thing is not what we have but what we do with what we have. Christian faith is not only valuable for the soul of man but also for his body, and has succeeded in eliminating many diseases through the use of medicine and in other ways. Cures and remedies have been...
...health of the mind and the health of the body. For example, in the modern high pressure of life, the pressure of life, the great percentage of physical sickness is due to nervous troubles which have their source in the mind. It is in these mental disorders, that the doctor has opportunity to exert his Christianizing influence. Like St. Paul, he must uphold his faith in spite of criticism in order to contribute the best that is in his life...
With the lawyer, it is much the same as with the doctor. The true lawyer's idea of his profession does not consist in the ordinary routine expressed by crime, retribution and a fee, but in abolishing the conditions which lead to sin. The effectiveness of this method for preventing crime itself is illustrated by the improvement obtained among the Labrador fishermen, and by the present result of prohibition in the state of Maine. Although the liquor dealers have done their best to make the prohibition law ineffective in that state, yet, since its introduction, the amount of crime...