Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Springfield, Mass., preached last night in Appleton Chapel, taking as his subject the relations of Christ's followers to the rest of the world. He said in part: Those who consider themselves Christians call Jesus master and lord, but few fully realize what following his teaching and leadership really involves. The average Christian is both in the world and out of it. He is generally as much interested in outside matters as any one else, so that there is often no external difference between a church member and a nonchurch member. This fact does not necessarily lower the church...
Some of us think of Christ as one who led a wonderful life and who left his impression on the world for all time; but we are apt to think of Him too much as a Master. He seems to assume the leadership over all of us, both Pharisees and multitude. He was so perfect that we are afraid of Him. When we think of His calm, sweet life, and His fearlessness of death, we regard him with a kind of superstitious veneration. When we think of the mysterious greatness of His character we feel infinitely small and insignificant...
...reception and social to be given by the Christian Association next Monday, Nov. 18, to members of the University, it is hoped that a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be present. A double quartette from the Glee Club, under the leadership of Mr. R. C. Thomas '96, will also contribute to the entertainment of the evening. Short addresses will be made by a few members of the Faculty...
...first run of the Cycling Association started from the Gymnasium yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Twenty-two men went out under the leadership of Captain Burdette, riding to Chestnut Hill Reservoir at a moderate pace. There the party divided, part returned via Beacon street and the Harvard Bridge at a fast rate, while those who did not care to scorch followed in an easy pace with W. R. Brinckoihoff...
...classes of the human race; first, that great majority which repeats from day to day the same routine of duties, and secondly, the few who can go beyond the present and can disign something and are able to originate. This long and elaborate education should give the power of leadership though it may be in some small field. No education is successful unless it gives this power...