Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Italian, he speaks English faultlessly so that his lectures will be so much the more enjoyable. The students ought to be grateful to the college authorities for affording them the opportunity of gaining instruction at the hands of so eminent a teacher and Sanders Theatre will no doubt be filled with a throng of people who have come to hear Italy's eminent scholar...
...communication in regard to proctors, which we publish on the first page of to-day's issue, deserves the attention of all undergraduates who room in the college buildings. There is no doubt but that there are proctors who are over officious, yet we can hardly believe with our correspondent that the evil of their unwarranted interference is a very great one. It seems to us that sometimes the proctors are not quick enough to remind too noisy students that there are others whose rights must not be infringed upon, even at the expense of a breaking...
...against Pharisaism. And Dr. Wigglesworth, the Hollis professor, wrote a strong letter to the great evangelist, protesting against his aspersions on the college piety. It is not necessary to take sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise in full what we doubt was a very lukewarm condition of religious zeal; but we may well rejoice in the occurrence as a breaking open of what had been a very hard and tight idea of religious experience. It was a protest in behalf of the variety and spontaneity of spiritual life...
...sciences have claimed that they, too, have revelations to give us of the will and ways of God. The actual life of men, the problems of the personal soul, the perplexities of social life; these, as well as the abstractions of the intellect, have proved their power to awaken doubt and to inspire faith. You cannot separate theology any longer by sharp lines from psychology and sociology. The open doors of the college chapel, into which no man is henceforth driven, out of which no man is excluded, in and out of which men pass spontaneously and freely, give...
What meaning shall we see in all of this? No doubt it is possible enough to see no meaning, or to see low meanings in it. Possible enough to see no meaning, to think of it all as a long dynasty of accidents, chance killing chance and taking possession of the vacant throne. If that is all, then nobody can guess at the future from the past. On into utter recklessness or back into a darker and severer superstition than any from which she has escaped. Either way this chance-governed, ungoverned world of ours may go. Possible to give...