Word: religion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Music as Essential as Religion...
Music is as essential to human life as a religion. The growth of true music, as the growth of a great philosophy, must be from the heart and from the mind. And to bring a man's intellect to the proper pitch for producing music, it is necessary for him to have had the time to be a student,--to have probed to the truths of life for their own sake. This is the lesson of the college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what...
Compulsion in the Union, I believe, is only the younger brother of compulsory religion. Education should, especially in a higher institution, have as little as possible to do with compulsion. The Union is merely one of the side-shows of this educational institution. Must we be compelled to pay ten cents extra for the side-show, when the price of admission to the main tent has just been raised from $1.50 to $2? Much compulsion is bad for the pulse...
...general plan of the day at Northfield offers excellent opportunities for personal friendship, healthful recreation, and for listening to men who have a strong influence on the religion of the present day. In the mornings and evenings of the week at Northfield, speeches are made by leaders in Christian thought and service, and Bible and mission study classes are held, closing with a general meeting addressed by one of the Conference speaekrs. Afternoons are given over to athletics of all sorts. Intercollegiate and undergraduate competitions are held in baseball, track, and tennis, while after dinner there is a general meeting...
...found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce the Greek religion to a set of anthropological phenomena, but we may seek to illuminate such modern governmental tendencies as socialism by the light of Plato's Republic and the Spartan system...