Word: scope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more impatient at the mystery which attends the church. As a result, several practical, but none the less wrong views of religion are taken. Some dismiss religion entirely as of no importance. Its incoherence condemns it in their sight. These are mostly scientists, literary men, and the like. Their scope is small: their view of life is mistaken. This class, although numerically large, is proportionally small. There is another set of men who are superstitious in regard to religion, but practical in every day life. They can only be religious by being illogical, and their religion cannot last long because...
...post office, University men are bound to interest themselves in a movement like this, provided that they are satisfied that a need exists. It is only a few days since Harvard men have been told of the duties of the college graduate in public affairs. To be sure, the scope of a man's interest will widen as he enters into the active life of a citizen; but his responsibility as a member of the community does not begin with his possession of a college degree. When his dependence upon the government is so directly and so constantly shown...
...Social Union will be conducted this year on the same general plan as last year but with a somewhat enlarged scope. H. S. Roberts '97 will live in the Social Union building and will be ready to help all those who come to him about the courses of instruction. Last year there were ninety students and at present there are over a hundred, while the lists are not yet complete. It is greatly desired that the work of the union should be more widely known among College men. The Educational Department is not, however, the only side of the Social...
...work, and that by allying himself with it a student would find an opportunity of putting into practice the principles of his Christianity. Among others who spoke were J. E. Gregg '97, W. H. Porter '98, H. G. Dorman '96, J. P. Warren '96, and W. W. Comfort The scope of the missionary work will be enlarged this year, but its character will remain unchanged. In the religious census taken yesterday many of the incoming class expressed their willingness to engage in philanthropic work, and last night several signified their intention of joining the Christian Association...
...courses herein presented. In the first place, the intention has been to omit all purely professional work. In the next place, the Handbook has been and is a growth. The edition of 1893 included eleven institutions, while this includes twenty-one, and future issues may be gradually enlarged in scope. For all details the reader is referred to the full announcements published by the several colleges and universities and freely sent to all applicants...