Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twenty without a religion is truly to be pitied. "Truth is not to think, but to be and to do." Let a man's intellect work, but meanwhile let him obey Christ and live as Christ would wish. To be better men and lead the best life, making others feel Christ, this is a life of truth. Christianity has a broad sweep, it comes to men at work, at their books, at their worship. You say you do not need Christ in your College life, your life is complete, and perhaps you are right. But you must be prepared...
...members of the class of '89, of Harvard University, wish to express the profound sorrow which we feel at the death of William Abram Levi. We realize that in him we have lost one whom we had learned to admire for his sterling qualities and amiable disposition. A conscientious student and one of our highest scholars, he gave promise of a brilliant and useful manhood...
...Monday night, according to the improved custom, was celebrated by a large minority of the members of this University in a way that perhaps was highly satisfactory to their desire for "free drink." Thus the college year was opened under auspices of which every true son of Harvard must feel intensely proud, for in the orgy of that interesting evening he must see a thoughtful devotion to the good name which Harvard has hitherto possessed, arguing well for the glory of her future...
...life may be studied apart from the multitudinous throng of every-day studies, and for that purpose this church was built. Learning, when free, rises to worship, and study, when untrammeled, soars to communion with God, and for this worship the door is wide open. As soon as men feel the influence of Christ, humanity thrives, charity increases. The best in a man, the best in a society, the best in the world has the right to rule the rest. For this the door stands open. Will man enter? That rests with him. 'Behold I have set before thee...
...Harvard professor has made the calculation that if men were really as big as they sometimes feel, there would be no room in the United States for only two professors, three lawyers, two doctors, and a reporter on a Philadelphia paper...