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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second place, this interpretation must have the power to impress human minds and to influence human lives. A man who through all the changes and vicissitudes of life has remained true to his religion can no longer doubt his belief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on "What is Revelation?" | 2/13/1908 | See Source »

...army to direct their mortar fire over the city and harbor, and led directly to Port Arthur's fall. Although General Stoessel has often been blamed for his conduct at the time of the siege, and has even been court-martialed, the Russian leader really did all in his power to save the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interesting Lecture by Major Lynch | 2/12/1908 | See Source »

Gambetta, one of the first statesmen of the French republic, prophesied that the Mediterranean was to be the theatre of French action, and his prediction has been amply justified. France is today essentially a Mediterranean power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "France and the Mediterranean" | 2/11/1908 | See Source »

...mankind, Professor Everett recognized that religion has been man's supreme interest. He saw, too, that the degeneration of this interest has been man's deepest affliction. He deplored equally the isolation of reason from faith, and the isolation of faith from reason. He devoted a life of uncommon power and loftiness to the illumination of religion by the intellect, and to the inspiration of the intellect by the ideals and passions of pure religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Number of Theological Review | 1/14/1908 | See Source »

...after due consideration resolves to engage in teaching, should also consider the question of whether he shall take up college or secondary school teaching. The college teacher needs extensive knowledge in a single field; the preparatory school teacher or principal needs greater personal magnetism and has more responsibility and power because he gets boys at the formative period of their lives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Eliot's Talk on Teaching | 1/14/1908 | See Source »

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