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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Judge, of New York, vice-president of the General Theosophical Society, lectured last evening in Holden Chapel, on "The Underlying Basis of All Religions." He said that religion of some sort universally prevails, and that its three greatest divisions are Brahmanism, Buddhism and Christianity. Of these, Brahmanism is the oldest, but it has not as mand followers as the other two; Buddhism embraces two-thirds of the human race; Christianity includes a large part of the remaining third. If, then, we can find any common foundation underlying these three great branches of religion, we may safely regard...
...will now be interesting to see in a general sort of way what has been the outcome of this work. The report is some three hundred pages in length, and of course the merest outline of it can be given...
...resolved to devote his life to religious reflection. For six years, according to the Indian legend, he studied the existing systems without getting any satisfaction from them. At last an "illumination" came to him which was the basis of future Buddhistic theory. It was expressed in a sort of psalm, full of the elaborate wording and solemn tone of the oriental style. Three immutable "facts" were laid down concerning the "constituents of being;" first, that they were "transitory;" secondly, "miserable;" third, "lacking in the ego." As the doctrine of faith and works may be considered the characteristic of Christ...
...choice of what he shall do and how he shall do it. How he chooses is the best test of the man. Here in a University we are constantly called upon to choose between pleasure and duty, and even in our work we must always be choosing what sort of things we shall do. Here are many things set before us and most of them good things. Shall we now choose the serious and lasting or shall we give ourselves up to idleness and enjoyment? The college must always be judged by the spirit of the students. The outside world...
...second meeting will be a ladies' day. It will be devoted to light gymnastics of some sort. On account of the fact that two meetings are crowded into one, some events must be omitted. It has not been definitely decided just what events will be contested. There was last night a meeting of men interested in gymnastics, in order to find out in what events there are likely to be entries. Men appeared for the horizontal bar, parallel bars, tumbling, and rope climbing. Unless more men enter, however, some of these events will be given up for a potato race...