Word: morals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Jesus thought on these matters. He tries to get such a philosophy of the teaching of Jesus as will be intellectually defensible and intelligible to a twentieth-century congregation. Having thus set forth the teaching and experience of Jesus, he then endeavors to apply it to the social, economic, moral and spiritual problems of his own day. He is not content with the expressions of moral and spiritual principle in the language or to the problems of a past generation, but he applies that principle directly to the vexed questions of the hour...
...there is a second function of the minister less spectacular but no less precious than that of preaching. As a moral and spiritual leader he is also set to be the personal friend of the men and women and children in his parish, to exercise, with a sort of affectionate disinterestedness, the functions of guide and counsellor in their individual lives. It is this portion of his work which gives him so wide and inclusive a contact with his generation. And it tends to make him what all great ministers have been, a supreme humanist; a man, that...
...chemistry and Professor Child in English. The only impression made on me by one professor was that of a pair of staring spectacles and an immovable upper lip, and by another of a throaty growl in his Sophoclean larynx There was an entire lack, to me, of all moral or personal influences. I look back with a certain pathetic commiseration on myself, unwarmed for the whole four years by a single act or word expressive of interest on the part of those to whom my education was intrusted. And this is literally true. The element of personal influence was entirely...
...Mary Whiton Calkins, professor of philosophy and psychology at Wellesley college, will give an address in Emerson F this evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. Calkins' subject will be: "The Place of the Feeling of Obligation in the Moral Consciousness." The meeting will be under the auspices of the Philosophical Club and all members of the University and the public are invited...
...might say, too, that military training is the other half of all education of character. Training of the will must begin with control of the body. Moral training must have at least two sides: theoretical instruction in ethical principles, and the actual development of habits. Greek education made the habit-building primary: their "gymnastics" had the purpose of building body and character alike. Our universities have all but dropped the development of the will by habit. Of course, every task and responsibility involves some moral training, and every college has its routine of demands. But the foundation of all character...