Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first editorial article in the Advocate of October 24 pleads for two weeks recess at Christmas; the second expounds the value of keeping certain hours sacred to study. Both are good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas...
...great importance, written by a Harvard Master of Arts, now a member of the Faculty of Arts, now a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was given to the Press of a sister institution for publication." That the University Press is doing much to remedy this evil is shown by the fact that already, in little more than half a year since it was founded, it has published approximately two hundred and twenty-five important books and essarys of scientific description, mostly by members of the Faculty. These contributions, covering a vast scientific field, show by their comprehensive...
...Civil War was anything but an unmixed evil. Patriotism prompted both sides and so with the bravery of northern soldiers "all the brave deeds of southern men are part of the common heritage of American glory. Moreover, we all know that the young men and youths who took part in that war were made better men, morally, mentally, and physically. Such service ever has been the great counteracting influence against the selfish aims and cares of everyday life. A man who engages in trade or toil, buys and sells by the yard and pound, and as the years roll...
Vorgil and St. Lucian in the "Inferno" are significant of the necessity of the presence of reason and faith throughout our lives. Hell is the revelation of evil, by means of the reason given us by the divine grace of faith. The great lesson of the "Inferno" is that only through the grace of God can we see evil. As he goes on with his great pilgrimage, Dante learns the lessons of the joy of sacrifice, of progress only through present dissatisfaction, and of the salvation of souls by God alone. Life consists, if we but allow...
...Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. "Its significance lies in this," said Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, "that a true Christian life is a repetition of what happened to our Master. It is the story of the necessity of fighting evil, after firmly resolving to fight it, and then of the acceptance of the soul in the presence of the Redeemer...