Word: means
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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However, I do not mean this to appear in any light as a retraction of the opinions I expressed as to personalities of this sort. G. H. GRANT...
...distinctly declined. What is desirable, is, that the proportion of person entering between 17 and 19 should largely increase. Three-eighths of the Freshmen admitted in 1900 were 19 years of age, or more. There is no good reason why nine-tenths of all the boys who mean to go to Harvard College should not be fully prepared for admission at eighteen years...
...justice to myself, my assistant, and the men who tutor with me, that both interpretation and assumption are incorrect, and, it seems, to me, uncharitable. Perhaps your correspondent will recognize that he formed his conclusions hastily and ill-advisedly when I state that the phrase "in close touch" means, and has been interpreted, so far as I know, to mean, that my assistant is intimately acquainted with men in the Department, has worked under them for years, knows through their view, and the importance they attach to them, and is therefore in an excellent position to prepare men for their...
Harvard showed that the preservation of the Chinese empire would mean war for the United States; that a single war would precipitate international war; that the commercial gain was not sufficiently great; and that the United States was under no moral obligation to China...
...Aposties' Creed is praised because it is a statement of facts; but the facts need to be shown as having a spiritual import. The Father must not mean Creator merely, but the Righteous Friend and Lover of men, the source of all beneficence. The position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith...