Word: likes
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...power of Christ came, first, from his unwavering devotion and obedience to the will of God. Men of strength who acknowledge no higher strength, men of genius, who do not acknowledge the superior wisdom of God, do not lead men but repel them; only those who point, like the compass needle, unchangingly to a pole where lies all power and influence are those who direct and guide the world. Jesus Christ by a standard of right above and beyond himself was able to point men to ideals and attainment, higher than their own and was able to make them follow...
Epochs in the world's history came and are gone, and through them all and shaping the eras that are ushered in, abides the influence of Jesus Christ, working through the lives of men. Those men will inspire and lead the world who, like Christ, live their lives by divine laws and for definite and exalted work...
Professor Hanus says: "I am in favor of a general plan of uniform entrance examinations, and I should like to see Harvard adopt some such scheme in conjunction with other leading American colleges. If college requirements were more nearly alike, the work of the preparatory schools would be greatly simplified, the instruction would be more concentrated and thorough and the pupils would be far better prepared for the subsequent work of the University. I should strongly deprecate the lowering of the Harvard requirements for admission, but I believe that a set of uniform entrance requirements could be drawn up which...
...cannot refrain from expressing the hope that Harvard will send no delegation, but will remain quietly at home and attend to her own affairs. Quite apart from political questions and whether one wishes to endorse the course of the government or not, it seems to an old Harvard man, like myself, entirely out of place for a great University to interrupt its work in order either to give some of its students a good time or to swell a political triumph. It is most important for a University to foster patriotism; but it will do this best by insisting that...
...language sodalities," for ameliorating the language itself, are a further example of movements which were too exclusive and too theoretical. The attempted reform in the German vocabulary, which for the moment failed, was contrasted with the gains to English in the hands of a controversial master of style like Thomas Nash. Nash wrote with the nation for his audience and his changes (e.g. the introduction of words in the size into controversial English) were dictated by more practical considerations than occurred to the German theorists. But the indirectness and slowness of development in German literature, as compared with German culture...