Word: secular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That epoch is within the memory of the oldest cadet--although it is now passed away by three weeks and more of secular eternities--when nine o'clock was the dawning hour of the day, and the sun, the student, and the voice of the tocsin to the first class arose simultaneously and at once. He was a hero who attended nine o'clock classes thrice a week. He was a demi-god who managed to get his breakfast beforehand. Most men never knew that the dawn bestirs itself more than three hours before noon. Only botanists and late wassalers...
...real name and with the assumed name on the outside. The music must be for four voices (chorus, with or without solo voices) and with organ or piano accompaniment, the time required for performance not exceeding six minutes. The words may be either English or Latin, religious or secular, original or selected. A prize will be awarded only in case a manuscript is submitted that, in the opinion of the judges, is fully deserving of it. Manuscripts must be delivered to the chairman of the committee, Arthur Foote '74, at 81 Green street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, by April...
There is something more than a merely academic interest in the forthcoming celebration; it has a secular as well as religious significance. The Harvard Divinity School looks back over a century of institutional vicissitudes and over some of the greatest transformations in human thought. In that period theology has run the gauntlet of evolutionary doctrine and come out with new methods of appeal; it has emerged from its struggle with science modified but strengthened. Religion now finds itself in closer contact with life, and there is a deeper recognition of its meaning for movements of social uplift. Doctrines differ...
...University. The composition shall be for chorus with four voices (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass), with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment; the time of the performance is not to exceed six minutes. The words may be either English or Latin, religious or secular...
...unconscious philosophy so tenacious that the four years of the college in its present technique can do little to disintegrate it. The cultural background of the well-to-do American home with its 'nice' people its amiable religiosity and vague moral optimism, is far more alien to the stern secular realism of modern university teaching that most people are willing to admit. The college world would find itself less frustrated by the undergraduate's secret hostility if it would more frankly recognize what a challenge its won attitudes are to our homely American ways of thinking and feeling. Since...