Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Herron is an apostle of social reform from the standpoint of Christian Idealism. The church, the state, man, human relations are Christian only as they embody a sacrificial quality of life. The whole social order is measured and tested from the standpoint of sacrifice. In the application of this doctrine, Dr. Herron is logical and unflinching. His results are, in certain cases, extreme, and to some, his conclusions seem even to be unsafe. But the directness of his teaching, his earnestness, his insight and his eloquence give him a large hearing wherever he speaks. He has travelled all through...
...seek out in person the objects of their charity and labor to raise them to a higher life. It is safe to say that in no other college is there such effective organization of charitable and philanthropic work. "Harvard is not likely to bother about the idle fancies of human brotherhood or the dignity of man." Yet it is the Harvard undergraduates who have for years supported the Prospect Union; who, under the watchword of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," have furnished an eager corps of instructors to hundreds of the artisan class who longed for the education they could...
...golden" the work in which Theocrastus stated that a good woman was rarer than a white blackbird, and complained that a man had nevertheless to marry without such a trial as would be expected if he bought even a beast of burden. The question whether woman was a human being was also soberly discussed at church council. It was finally decided that she was; but with so much favor as that, her situation was still most unhappy...
...seems to me that a student will get from this experience, some Italian, certainly some ideas of how the Italians pronounce their language, some knowledge of human nature, especially of this new kind of human nature which is coming to us in such shoals, and some training in the art of teaching. He will find the men very cordial, and if he is the right sort of fellow they will soon become very much attached to him, and very grateful for what he does for them...
...meet the wishes of those who wish to do practical good, the Student Volunteer Committee was organized. By this committee practical philanthropic work is organized in various branches of human life...