Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...profession. The minister is no longer a performer of rites and ceremonials only, on which his power once lay. He must rest his reputation now on an exposition of the best and clearest literary effort of the best thinkers. Necessarily such an appeal can have little effect on the "less-thinking" part of the population, for whom ceremonial and vestment will always be attractive. In the Protestant Church, however, exhortation and counsel, will keep their place...
This side of a college education, however, does not appeal to business men. To their objections we urge the obviously practical side of a college training. We have in the undergraduate world an end less variety of positions and offices which can be won and used to advantage. Our College papers offer unrealized possibilities for obtaining experience, not only to the man who expects later to enter a journalistic or literary career, but also to the man who expects later to enter a journalistic or literary career, but also to the man who wishes to gain some insight into business...
...some office or begin on the lowest rung of the ladder. Some of these men during their residence in Cambridge may have received only an impractical smattering of French or German, a hazy familiarity with the habits and private life of the Ancient Romans, and perhaps a more or less thorough understanding of the Indian tribes of the southwest and the varieties of the daisy in Middlesex county. Few men confine themselves to these subjects, but even such information, however trivial it may seem at first thought, gives a broad education to the student and fits him for intelligently taking...
...hope of the Harvard Political Club to continue its work this winter on a broarder scale than in past years. So far as possible meetings will be held every two or three weeks. At about half of these meetings men of a more or less national reputation will speak on some broad phase of political life. These lectures will be open to all members of the University, but the remainder of the meetings will be for members of the Political Club only. At these small meetings it is planned to have someone speak on practical local politics, the purpose being...
...Whereas, in the judgment of the Council, the interests of debating in the University can best be promoted not only by the practice of formal debating (which may be had at its best in the course on Debating offered by the English Department), but also by more or less informal discussion of public questions in relatively small groups of congenial...