Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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John Bunyan: His life, times and works, by John Brown, $1.50, published...
Professor Francke said that the literature of a nation contains all the traits which combine to make the national life; and since it would be too great a task to attempt to grasp the relation of all these traits to literature, we should confine our attention to one or two at a time. He proposed to examine the influence which Individualism had had upon the literature of Germany...
...Harvard spirit is not demonstrative, so the religious side of the life here is not pushed into the prominence which it attains in some colleges, but the testimony of those who come into closest touch with the students will bear us out in what we have said. No man understands the tendencies of Harvard life better than Phillips Brooks, and he has said that Harvard is the most religious of American colleges...
...absurdly exaggerated and, in many respects, absolutely untruthful, articles concerning the tendencies of life at Harvard, which have recently appeared in magazines and newspapers, have been productive of one good result. Under the leadership of Rev. Frank B. Vrooman, a committee of students, who have formerly been members of other colleges, has been investigating the tendencies of religious life here. Mr. Vrooman, in an interview with a reporter of the Boston Post, speaks of the work of the committee and some of its results. The gentleman, besides being a student in the philosophical department of the University, is the pastor...
...There is here also, unusual vigor of religious life. The students are interested in the chapel services and every day on the campus, in the street and at Memorial Hall they may be heard speaking of the helpful words of the Rev. Phillips Brooks, the Rev. Dr. Gordon and other preachers of the University. I have just seen a graduate of a well-known theological seminary. In the divinity department at Harvard, he says that the tone of the conversations and the general bearing of the students are cleaner and more elevated than has been the case at seminaries where...