Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nearness of the people to their president and all their high officials. The close view given the citizens of the acts and conduct of those to whom they have entrusted their interests, serves as a regulator and check upon temptation in official life; and it teaches that diligence and faithfulness are the true measures of public duty. [Loud applause, cheers, and cries of "Good! good."] Such a relation between the people and their president ought to leave but little room in the popular judgment of conscience for unjust and false accusations and for malicious slander, invented for the purpose...
...grounds have been the scenes of so much human life for these 250 years of struggles and hopes and fears and aspirations, of doubts and dreads, of men's conflicts with themselves, of men's coming to the knowledge of themselves, of solitudes and of associations, of gains, of faith, and of losings of faith, of triumphs and of despair, or temptations and of ecstacies; and it is out of all this hovering like a great crowd rising like a great exhalation from over the long history of Harvard College and its generations of men, that slowly, mysteriously...
...truth must be aware of the great whole of truth which it utters; if it does not it becomes untrue. Each star must quiver with the movement of the system, or it is a mere waif and stray of brilliance, living at random in the sky. Each article of faith must feel the creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation of the world. Each age in history must be conscious of all human...
...clearly tells of it, how definite, and limited, and special, was the foundation of Harvard College. It lay like a weird ball of light in the intention of its founders. It had no relations with any region of human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system of church discipline - this was the end for which...
...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 a true symbol...