Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...degradation of pure secularism shall be complete, until at last religion and the mystery of life shall be forever dissipated, and the thin, hard and colorless relic which is left shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking at it all is possible. But there is yet another and a higher possibility. There may be in all this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer and more gracious meaning. It may signify, we believe that it does...
...duty of an anniversary to test and recognize the relation in which a man or a venerable college stands to this element of the Christhood, to the goodness of God and the greatness of man as making together the atmosphere of life. Think, then, about the history of our college as we hurriedly traced it. Is its true explanation here? Has all this constant enlargement of its life been moving toward the great truths of the goodness of God and the sublime capacity of man. It must be so. Our progress of these two centuries and a half would...
...profounder meaning, to own the Christhood within which she has lived, and to give her whole future up to it for government, and help, and blessing. Let us demand of her to do that for herself to-day. My friends, brethren in the love and care of our great mother, let us do that...
...unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much of our university history. In the multitude of our police regulations, in the thoroughly economical view of conduct which a great community begets, we feel too rarely the grand inspiration of righteousness as opening the way to truth; of character as the medium by which light...
...such a university cultivating righteousness as the medium of faith must come great privileges. We love to think that she must become a great home of reconciliations. In her calm and lofty air, the friends of whom the world would make, foes must meet and own their friendship, science and religion, faith and reason, individuality and society, conservatism and radicalism, poverty and wealth, the past and the future - these must join hands and walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal...