Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...again advanced that Yale is the national college, and as such stands foremost among all the colleges in this land. Dr. Porter spoke at some length on the religious influence of Yale, and declared that everywhere the public demand is "that our young men shall have the side of faith and reverence strengthened rather than weakened. And the educated man asks that he shall be guided aright." We must argue from the words of the speaker that the course of Harvard is truly a course of progress, and as such is slowly forcing itself on the minds of the faculty...
...CRIMSON. - Considerable comment has been caused by the fact that, out of the half-dozen or more themes in sophomore English, only one has been subjected to the inter-student criticism, which the class was led to expect with every succeeding theme. Have the instructors in this course lost faith in their original plan, or has "ye student critic" got himself into disfavor? It is to be hoped that both have happened, and that the latter especially is the case, for nothing can be more pitiable than some of the expression of jealousy and puerility handed in as criticisms this...
...most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni...
...have too little skillful compilation and arrangement of facts, so we have too much crude, or borrowed literary criticism. College editors have too great faith in the opinions of themselves and of their friends. They should not so readily allow the publication of their own and others' immature and uninteresting remarks upon things, books...
...That the already recognized propriety and justice of not enforcing attendance upon prayers in the case of some whose religious faith is not in harmony with the particular observance, tend to show the impropriety and injustice of making such attendance compulsory...