Word: humanity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hale announced in chapel that the morning exercises for the next three weeks would follow the course which he roughly blocked out in his sermon on Sunday evening. The Divine Law for human life requires, first, personal purity. "The wisdom from above is first pure." For three or four days the service will follow the special instructions for bodily training. The wisdom from above is next peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated. The instructions for Christian living, the habits of a gentle man follow on those for physical training. Lastly and chiefly, Christian ethics require active work and good...
...Sands of Time" is gracefully written, and expresses as all true poetry, excepting, perhaps, some society verse should do, a truth. Men certainly are seldom rightly judged by human standards...
...There has been a great advance in mutual good feeling between 'town and gown' even within a score of years. A Cambridge policeman does not now represent 'all that is antagonistic to human interests,' even in the eyes of the freshest undergraduate. Harvard men and Cambridge society have very pleasant relations, and the annual graduation exercises of the city high school in Sanders theatre represent much more fairly the existing good feeling than does the petty criticism of Harvard as a foreign and non-taxpaying corporation...
...peculiar enthusiasm of his own generation, the speaker said, was rather political or purely intellectual than religions. Of this, war and the doctrine of evolution were the great causes. But with the coming generation there is to be a change. The problems which will confront them will be human problems, and because intensely human therefore divine. Christianity is now developing, instead of the martyr or the reformer, the man who will use the world for his own large, true, Christian ends. The forces at present at work on young life are a craving for serious results in thought...
...wisdom. This incident from the Old Testament leads to the thought of the attributes of material and moral progress in the lives of Christians to-day. We cannot choose our environments at the beginning of our life. Gracious circumstances are given by God alone, but it is due to human activity and exertion that the growth of the body in material prosperity and of the soul in moral strength is made possible. Neither goodness nor wealth are of spontaneous development. With honorable success comes an honorable end. The change takes place unconsciously; we feel only the warfare...