Word: interest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...father, Charles Carrol Everett, deeply respected and widely influential as scholar and teacher in Harvard University for more than thirty years. In advance of his generation, and through his wide survey of the spiritual life of mankind, Professor Everett recognized that religion has been man's supreme interest. He saw, too, that the degeneration of this interest has been man's deepest affliction. He deplored equally the isolation of reason from faith, and the isolation of faith from reason. He devoted a life of uncommon power and loftiness to the illumination of religion by the intellect, and to the inspiration...
...welcome accorded to the Review, two motives may be expected to exert their influence. The first is the interest excited by suspicion. We have heard of the Presbyterian Elder who usually slept during the sermon when his own minister was the preacher, but who, when a stranger occupied the pulpit, remained wide awake and keenly alert. He gave as his reason for this change of attitude, his assurance of the soundness of his minister, and his conviction that when a stranger came, he needed watching. There are many dormant minds to whom this Review with its new and unknown character...
...sorts of unrelated things, and not in "contact with men," which too often means becoming part of a clique. It is a place where we should learn to work as well as to play, where we should learn to enjoy work; and that will come through arousing real interest in some particular subject whether it be related or not to our later career. Thus, even here, moderate specialization is wise. Unless our careers fail to be what they should be, such specialization ought to arouse some of the spirit discussed in the first contribution of the issue...
...Esperantists who are looking ahead and see the needs of the world because of new nations and languages that are constantly coming into prominence, is to spread interest in their language until legislatures pass laws requiring that Esperanto be taught in the public schools. Esperanto, it is claimed, will promote a friendly feeling among people of different nationalities, will facilitate travel and will be the most effective means of bringing about universal peace...
...squad up to its normal size. In track more than in any other sport the apparently hopeless candidates have been given individual attention. This has been due partly to the fact that men are able to report at various times during the day, but more to the unflagging interest of coaches and trainer in men who, in most cases, take part in track athletics for exercise alone. The results of this individual attention are shown now and then by the development of point winners from hitherto untried material. Even greater advantages are those which appear only in the physical improvement...