Word: procession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cause is to be found in the weakness and inadequacy of our methods of education for the young. The effect of this weakness is to bring boys of fourteen or fifteen to the preparatory schools with very little actual knowledge, and with no systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory. It is therefore not only the age of the Harvard freshman, but too often his poor mental equipment which must be deplored...
...Committee, and in the putting forth by that committee of its admirable report on the subject; and by those who watched the struggle of the college authorities to fairly guide and control athletics through the offices of advisory committees and what not, that the final net result of this process, the present committee of athletics, had been formed in the light of the experiences gained; that this committee so formed and vested with full power, would govern wisely and without prejudice; and that, above all, the erratic "interference of the Faculty" was forever a thing of the past. Alas, vain...
...Library, the librarian has been much perplexed by the question of what to do with the 100,000 volumes reserved in the reading room. All these books will have to be moved before the work of alteration can begin, which will be about the first of July. The process of moving so great a number of books is very laborious and cannot be accomplished in less than three weeks. The present plan is to fit up Lower Massachusetts as a temporary reading room and to deposit the reserved books there...
Salvation, Dr. Moxom said, is the process of recovery from sinful disposition and habit, and of development in righteousness. It involves the development of the whole nature, - spiritual, intellectual and physical. It is not attained in bulk, by churches or by groups; each one must work it out for himself. It is won by the spirit of God working in the soul; it is God's achievement...
...still better ones. He was no iconoclast. Especially at the present day was there a need for paying heed to this constructive side of Christ's work. Young men were inclined at present to be iconoclastic. They forgot that though destruction is easy, construction is a slow and painful process. A man's religion might be fetichism but it might be the best that he was able to have. To destroy it without putting something better in its place was to do a positive injury...