Word: faith
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...habit of criticism. It is not possible to accept all the conclusions of the writer, especially as he invalidates some of them himself--e. g., the simile of the lizard on the wall--but it is pleasant to see the genuine attempt to give a reason for the faith that is in the enthusiast...
...attend are asked to do so as Professor Kuehnemann is anxious to meet the undergraduates informally. Light refreshments will be served. "My Queen," Brahms "Marienwuermchen," Schumann "A Song of Faith," Chaimnade "The Woodpecker," Nevin
...Paul's Society as usual conducts weekly services on Wednesdays at 7 o'clock and holds its corporate communions monthly in Christ Church. In addition it has about 30 men engaged in social service work in connection with the Church in Cambridge and Boston. The courses on Christian faith to be given in March have not yet been announced...
...back" and his ironical "Yessir" are sure touches. I for one can stand more of Tobias. The telling, on the whole, is better than the story. "The First Prophecy" by Mr. Moore deals with remote things--early Britain, Vortigern, Merlin and the Druids. The chronology is a matter of faith, but the influences are distinctly those devices from some course in English. A good imagination and some artistry in words spent too lavishly on the impossible--these things make me wish that Mr. Moore would come off his mediaeval perch; his literary legs will stand firmer on the common ground...
...distinction as a teacher rested on his many-sided scholarship; on his power to transmute whatever he taught into terms of a common humanity; and on his eagerness to find moral beauty in all excellence. He loved art and literature, and he had a large faith that both could be made to lend their concurrent influence not only to refinement and delight, but also to dignity of life and to the formation of lofty standards of thought and action. He inculcated the virtue of reverence. He awakened and developed ideals in his pupils, he did not impose them from without...