Word: seriousness
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...presentation of a stereotyped annual play. We believe that their organization should be much broader, and that the social aspect should be subordinated to the encouragement of study of the literature and language of their country. Baseball games furnish, one side of their activity, but there is the more serious side which is only periodically realized. We hope that the ambition of these societies will turn toward the direction which is the real cause of their foundation...
...most serious reproaches to which we lay ourselves open is our treatment of visiting teams. In many cases they arrive in Boston, where they remain until they leave for the field, and after the contest, they return at once to their hotel or train. Their managers make all arrangements for their entertainment, and they rarely receive any of the little courtesies which are reflected in the resulting better feeling between the teams and the institutions which they represent. It would be unfair to many past managers to say that there have been no exceptions to this indifferent attitude...
...cause dear to Professor Everett. Professors G. F. Moore, W. W. Fenn, and J. H. Ropes, are the Editorial Committee. They have the hearty support of their colleagues in the Faculty of the Divinity School, and it may be added, that they have the good wishes of all serious-minded men, in their endeavor to make this Review the servant of religion pure, catholic, and universal...
...well, from the initial article by Professor Peabody on 'The Call to Theology,' to the last on 'The Divine Providence by Dr. C. F. Dole. As one might expect from a glance at the names of the several contributors, the pages of the Review are marked by able and serious discussion of questions of present and pressing moment...
...future. It was said of Emerson that every new person to whom he was presented was greeted by him as if this person might prove to be the friend for whom the seer had been looking, but whom he had hitherto failed to find. The expectation of the serious part of the community today, from the research of the scholar, the insight of the philosopher, and the vision of the prophet working upon the world laid open in the life of the saint, is vast, and it may be, that the Harvard Theological Review will answer this expectation...