Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hold temporary positions as cheer leaders. Anyone who has witnessed the important intercollegiate games of the past few years will realize this fact. Organized cheering is perfectly legitimate if it is not allowed to overstep its bounds; it is a pleasant thing to hear a college show its faith in its team. When, however, men are appointed to see that each section of the grandstands makes all the noise possible, then cheering has reached the "attempt to rattle" stage...
...living faith in future existence has no place in the modern social and political problems which face the human race. One reason for the prevailing popular indifference is caused by uncertainty. It is commonly supposed, that a man is appalled at the approach of death. This is erroneous, for as a rule man dies uninfluenced by the thoughts of future life...
...ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when doubt is diversified by faith...
Mystics and idealists compel admiration by the lives they lead. The salt of the earth are those who preserve for us a belief in the existence of a future life. On questions of this kind the only enduring belief is through faith. In the presence of so many unsolved mysteries one must not be dogmatic and deny the existence of a future state, but must recognize as a rock of safety some belief in the world to come. But this is all. Whether we are to step from light to light or from light to darkness we do not know...
Fearless, just, and wise, of deep and simple faith, serene in affliction, self-restrained in success, unsuspected by any man of self-interest, you command the admiration of all men and the gratitude and loyalty of the sons of Harvard...