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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several years ago, not long after the death of Bishop Brooks, a movement was started to present to the University some sort of a memorial of Bishop Brooks' religious work at Harvard. The suggestion that found most favor and was eventually acted upon was to erect a building which should serve as a home for all the widely-scattered religious interests of the University, and which should be called Brooks House, in memory of Bishop Brooks. The matter was taken up by a number of alumni and a committee appointed to take it in hand...
...originally intended to spend fully $200,000 on the building and have it not only give accommodations for all the religious societies and the University preachers, but also serve as a sort of social centre for the University, performing in fact many of the functions of a University club. For several reasons this original plan has had to be greatly modified. Almost at the outset the committee met with unexpected difficulty in the matter of funds on account of the general bad times of the last few years. More recently the University Club project has rendered it inadvisable to attempt...
...fall they had always to be thinking, with the recurrence of every stroke, of the various motions that they had to get through, as of something more or less strange or unaccustomed, it seemed to me when I saw them in March that these motions had become a sort of second nature to them, and that they therefore performed them with far greater facility and precision...
...nations have stumbled in this one direction by chance. And our opponents assume the possibility of a league. They assume that we may be asked to join it. There can be no guarantee for its permanence it formed. Nations would enter or withdraw as they pleased. Is this the sort of an agreement we wish to enter? In it we should coin silver and lose gold. Then when the league dissolved we should be left in absolute vagueness. It has always been our policy to keep out of entangling alliances and we should still...
...certain that in this century the theory of an evolutionary method of some sort in this universe has taken fast hold upon thinking men. Especially is this the case as to the life of man as man upon our planet. While a quiet evolution is easily seen in laws and political institutions, a more violent process is no less evident. So far the progress of man has been, far more than we could have wished, by catastrophies...