Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beside the two ballets there is to be the "Ceremonie du Doctorat," a burlesque on the initiation ceremonies of a doctor. About 47 men, apothecaries, doctors, surgeous and medicine carriers, take part in the ceremony, which is intensely comical by reason of its apparent seriousness...
...time spent by students in arranging for the trips, as well as the physical strain attendant upon the constant travel during the vacation, seriously affects their performance of college duties. This, we cannot believe is borne out by facts. If it were, in some instances, we see no reason, as we have said before, why they should not be treated individually...
Elinor was herself a patron of poetry. There is every reason to believe that her court was the resort of all the brilliant men and the poets of the north of France. Fortunately for us it was their delight to take for their theme the novel moral ideals and virtues of the time. The troubadours loved to tell first of all of courtesy as high in the rank of virtues; then of valor, of generosity, of perfect refinement and gentleness. There were other virtues which do not now pass as such. Youth was lauded, age condemned. Without joy, whether active...
...substance of his sermon is as follows: The chief reason why men hold away from religion is because it perplexes them. As we know Christianity, it comes to us in a most perplexing form, presenting many doubts and a long and complicated history. We doubt, not because it violates our ideas but because it goes beyond them. In the same way, Christ was doubted, even by his disciples, when he spoke in parables; but when he spoke clearly, he was generally believed...
...analyzed scientifically they would cease to be morals, because the conscience will only be obeyed when it speaks mysteriously. Education has taught the value of precision and accuracy, but it should never lead us to expect precision in the higher life. Lessing says, "He who does not lose his reason at times has no reason to lose." He who ceases to be led by emotions which he cannot understand, ceases to be a man: God satisfies the understanding by passing beyond...