Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...could find words graceful enough to pay even a part of the tribute which is owing to the class about to graduate. Its most striking characteristic, perhaps, is the steadfastness with which it has followed out the liberal and progressive spirit of the University. Many changes, radical in outward form, have taken place in Harvard during the past four years; yet at the bottom they have all been but the exemplars of the earnest spirit of advance which pervades every department here. Officers and instructors could not have made progress in this work were it not for the help...
...VanDyke conducted the service at Appleton Chapel last night. He took his text from Matthew xxiii, 23, and spoke of the pharisaical attitude toward religion, of their tendency to observe the outward forms of worship and service and neglect what is of real importance. Dr. Van Dyke will also conduct the service next Sunday...
...there. The process is a psychological one and English writers have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes. But the tendency is the same, to manifest the invisible world of inward inclinations and dispositions by the visible world of outward words and actions. Meanwhile the romanticism though declining in vigour, is far from decrepitude and has too been an international influence...
...this time the state of morals was very different from what it had been. Although religion had lost its hold, its outward forms were still observd. The ignorant masses believed in all kinds of superstition, the educated believed in nothing...
...Conference on the Parabolic teachings and the teaching of Christ, was held by Professor Palmer in Sever 11 last evening. Professor Palmer said that if any of us should try to sum up the works of Christ we should select the Miracles and the Parables as the most striking outward and inward features of his teachings. The parables remain long in our minds, attracting us and accompanying us throughout our lives. There are in all between twenty-five and fifty of Christ's parables. There are but few of his speeches, the chief characteristics of which could not be found...