Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot delivered an address at the first public meeting of the Harvard Religious Union in Holden Chapel last night. The chapel was well filled. President Eliot discussed religious union, saying that a clear idea is needed of what it must aim at, and of what it must be. Many serious mistakes have been made in the matter. A creed as a basis of a union has been tried. Many recognize it to be impossible. A creed is an expression of theological belief, in fixed phrases, but since theological thoughts change from generation to generation, a creed cannot...
...will be found a commonness of conception of human character. There is a tendency among preachers to leave off doctrinal preaching and to preach the following of Jesus, and even those persons who have no religious belief have a standard of living, which ideal cannot be divided from the idea of following Christ...
There are still thirty-two candidates left for the freshman crew. The men on the whole are an intelligent lot and as far as they have gone, have caught the idea of the work very well. As yet they have only had the body swing with oars at arms length. The rest of the work consists of dumbbell exercises and a run up North avenue...
...Their idea is to have a man whose special department shall be the work of the association in the higher educational institutions and those schools which fit for them, situated in the two states. Such a man would act under the advice...
Among American women there is a tendency to sacrifice the distinctive nature of their sex. The Woman's Building at the World's Fair, however successful in the character of its exhibits, is in its separateness the expression of the mistaken American idea. American children are the victims of the stern, practical life about. Childhood, which should be the time of light-hearted illusions, ends too early, if it even exists. But on the other hand, one of the best features of American life is the almost universal education of the youth...