Word: outward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...really significant activities in the College, none make less outward show than the religious, yet there are none which play a more important part in the student life. How important a part they do now play, very few of the undergraduates themselves realize. Statements on the subject cannot properly take the statistical form which is most forcible. Religion must lose its true character if it is dragged into the light as a matter of how many men attend chapel daily, or how many engage in organized charitable work. True devotion or true charity shrinks from the attempt to publish...
...well to ignore the religious feeling which finds expression in the lives of many Harvard men. For outward evidence of it there are the various religious societies and the regular daily attendance at chapel. But these do not measure its full extent. A very valuable part of the charitable work in the College is done by men who have no connection with any of the religious societies. Their number is fortunately large. While the organization of philanthropic work is important, the most truly philanthropic work is that which appears in the individual's contribution of direct personal service...
...picture of Hamlet goes, Mr. Tree deserves much praise. He is graceful and well-knit, and he suggests extremely well a melancholy, northern prince. But his presentation of Hamlet is to a very great degree confined to the trappings and outward show...
Faith was a very simple thing, yet like life, though simple was very complex. We should distinguish between faith and its outward aspects as well as between the different kinds of faith. There was the faith that could see God in Hebrew history but could not see Him in American history. Then there was the anticipatory faith which also lacked connection with the life of the present. Such faith which removed God from the duties, the struggles, the passions of every day was sure to breed unbelief...
...well aware that this a delicate question,- that no discourtesy is intended, and that the cheer comes because Harvard is gaining and not because opponents have made a misplay. Yet, in the outward appearance, there is nothing to distinguish one motive from the other, and it has been a tradition here that, in such cases, even the appearance of discourtesy should be avoided. It is a tradition that ought not to be broken...