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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no finer effort of the imaginary than that which at times like this clothes a great institution with personality and makes it live in all the fullness of intelligence, and affection, and will. It is not an uncommon power. The first powers are not those which are exceptional and rare, but those which belong in general to all humanity and constitute the proof marks of its excellence. In every age the member of the body of Christ has seen the great expression of Christ's life, of which he was a part, stand forth sublime and gracious...
...mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does a college most readily and thoroughly become the subject of the mysterious and beautiful process...
...that embodiment of the college as a gigantic, gracious personality, that is most present with her children who have come up to her festival, she sits like Jerusalem upon her hills, "the mother of us all." It is that personal presence, which is with us here tonight. What I want to do in the time which I may occupy with this sermon is to remind myself and you that this great being whom we reverence and love, must stand in some concise relation and obedience to universal being, must feel her life included in some larger life, or else...
First, then, it is hard to realize, although history clearly tells of it, how definite, and limited, and special, was the foundation of Harvard College. It lay like a weird ball of light in the intention of its founders. It had no relations with any region of human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system...
Fifty years later came another contest resulting in a new enlargement. In 1736 there was a "great awakening" in Northampton, where Johnathan Edwards was preaching. In 1740 George Whitfield came like a great wind of God across the land. The college life was stirred. The sober souls grew fearful of enthusiasm. President Holyoke preached against Pharisaism. And Dr. Wigglesworth, the Hollis professor, wrote a strong letter to the great evangelist, protesting against his aspersions on the college piety. It is not necessary to take sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise...