Word: reproacheing
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...congratulation for the opportunity now opening before him to devote himself to the congenial work of literary production. The volume of his achievement in this field is already considerable. As a writer of graceful verse and of a lucid prose always carrying a message of hopeful courage without reproach, he has a wide audience already assured...
Harvard is fortunately free of many of the restraints and restrictions against which Mr. Rood justly complains. Mob spirit and the dreadful "drive" are not as irresistible as in other colleges; yet even here they are all too powerful. When bitterness and reproach are hurled at the "authorities" for these and other defects it is well to remember that much of what is worst at Harvard, as in all other colleges, is caused by the materialistic philosophy of the undergraduates themselves. The student body itself tends to crush genius and exalt conformity...
Godless, irreligious even atheistic, are terms of reproach at which the Harvard student of today merely shrugs his shoulder. They have been used too long and too often. Yet there are excellent reasons for saying that such opinions are quite illfounded and false When a truly worth-while preacher appears, the Chapel can not contain the crowds that throng to hear him. An average attendance of almost 300 men at an optional course on religion, held at a none too convenient time in a stuffy hall, is a record of which the colleges who are reported to be praying...
...Indian is doomed. His race is dying, and it will not be long before his poor hunting ground becomes pasture land for cattle, and--with the irony of chance--the returning buffalo. The manner of his going is a bitter reproach to his conquerors, but the blame must be based where it fairly belongs--upon ethical, and not aesthetical grounds...
...over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints the pictures that his heart perceives. He has set himself the task of illustrating the Bible. Already he has finished 125 pictures, covering Genesis and the beginning of Exodus. Said he: "I have always felt it a reproach that almost every nation has produced its painter of the Bible except the one whose genius created that wonderful Book...