Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doctrines through lecturing. Professor Adler has gathered about him a large congregation of eminently intelligent people in New York City. Whereas, it was his original ambition and aim to call into life a new religious order if atheists may properly be so called, the assembly that meets to hear him every Sunday morning in New York consists mainly of liberal people with distinctly agnostic tendencies whose chief interests are however centered on improvement of the social order...
Professor Adler has frequently been charged with harboring socialistic ideas, but those who hear him or read his works can only admire the sort of socialism which he advocates. Professor Adler's work is, however, by nomeans limited to theorizing and lecturing. His great merit is the practical system of charities and education of the poorer classes which he has established and successfully built up. Chicago, Philadelphia and numerous other cities have now Ethical Culture Societies which are vying with the New York society in the work they do. No man in America, it is safe to say, is more...
...strength and any noticeable beauty of thought. As for "Bits from the H. P. C. Play" they can hardly be excused even on the score of their being mere "padding" to fill up the number. While such versifying is very good for a song when the listeners won't hear the words in any way, it seems rather hard to expect anyone to enjoy reading them...
...week. As yet the club has no definite plans in regard to giving concerts, but will undoubtedly do so later in the year. All who have heard the music of guitars and mandolins are fully aware of its beauty, and we hope that we may have a chance to hear the Guitar Club in the spring concert of the Glee Club and Pierian...
...connection with the change in the athletic outlook we are glad to see that the graduates have also set their heads at thinking. In the next number of the Harvard Monthly, we hear that Mr. Wendell, Harvard's champion short-distance runner, has an article in which he points out very clearly certain evils that are corrupting our athletics. We are glad to read Mr. Wendell's article, not only for its merits, but because it is a step in the right direction, an approach towards the time when the graduates and undergraduates will pull together, and then there shall...