Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Only a short time ago we laid to rest a leader in science who declared himself to be at the same time an evolutionist, a theist and a believer in the Nicene creed. Gray was like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment of our soundest minds is that theism is to suffer at the hands of evolution, not destruction, but reconstruction. Darwin admitted that no one understood the philosophy of evolution better than the late great botanist. Gray had stronger grasp on philosophy than Darwin. Gray was gifted with a clearer insight...
...eighty-eight board has left the Advocate, and in leaving has launched forth a bitter criticism against the management of the CRIMSON. We have a great respect for the opinions of our sister paper, knowing that she always says what she means and says it well. But in this case she has been a little ungenerous-nay, unjust. If the gentleman who wrote that stinging editorial will turn to past files of the CRIMSON he will see that the paper has greatly improved typographically. Accidents will happen occasionally, of course; but the general appearance is superior to that of past...
...last annual report the president of Harvard College gives a very interesting and encouraging account of that institution's efforts to promote the teaching of the English language and English literature in the preparatory schools, by steadily increasing requirements in this respect as conditions of admission to college. It appears that, with the exception of Yale College, all the leading educational institutions of New England have united with Harvard in the movement, and have issued identical lists of the literary works with which freshmen are required to be familiar. So far as the purpose of this endeavor is concerned...
...committee on the part of the directors has investigated the fare at such tables as described by "K.," and their opinion is that the fare does not compare in any respect with that served at Memorial Hall...
...attendance, and the serious-minded students have now the wholesome feeling that they are themselves partly responsible for maintaining and enlarging religious influences at the university. There are, of course, students who never enter Appleton Chapel, or expose themselves in any way to the preachers' influence; but in this respect the college closely resembles the larger community without...