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...temporal power aid or hinder the real advancement of the papal interests...
...simply a cooperative effort by young men at Harvard to meet the problem thus created: to get hold of this thing called charity, philanthropy, social service, most simply and effectively,- to secure a real adaptation between it and the conditions of college life. The new activity must help, not hinder, the people or the causes that we venture to touch, and must enrich, not impair, student life...
...notices of seminars will be received by the CRIMSON, although those already received for future issues will be published. We take this step for two reasons. In the first place, we are convinced ourselves and we believe that almost all men in the college are convinced that seminars hinder the right use of a college course, and that men who pass examinations by their aid do not do the work for which the Faculty gives degrees. While it is perfectly true that seminars might be rightly used, and may perhaps be so used by one man in twenty, the fact...
...afraid that, to profess Christianity, we must resign all hope of being successful in a worldly sense. Yet the command to the young man to give up his possessions was only incidental to the promise of eternal life. Christ knew that the young man's wealth would hinder him in a disciple's work. In the same way he requires us to abandon only what stands in the way of our welfare. Religion does not prevent us from attaining worldly success, and we are not called upon to relinquish anything that is consistent with true christian living...
...still alive, and that his activity still continues. If we understand that God's purpose is the evolution of the world, then we have one object in life, to allow ourselves to become his agents. If we will put our own will against his, then we so much hinder the final outcome of God's purpose and our lives have been a hindrance, not a help...