Word: soule
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...relation his death will be most felt. The government of the University loses in him a successful administrator, sagacious and resourceful, and a stimulating and inspiring teacher; his colleagues, a delightful associate and comrade, whose words and ways brightened many a tedious hour; the students, a warm-hearted, whole-souled friend. Those of us who live near the Yard will miss his picturesque figure, like that of a handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing, and flinging across the way the brusque greeting, "How d'ye, neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss...
...East, the pessimistic and the bright. The evils resulting from them are many, as the reasoned debauchcry of various rites and tenets shows; but still worse is the spiritual hopelessness which overshadows the followers of these religions. Their belief in a future life is gloomy. They consider the soul as without any communion with the beauty of nature. But there is a brighter side to these eastern cults. The long struggle for monotheism is still continuing. In some Hindu sects today one supreme, all-righteous god is conceived, and their rule of life is to be guided by righteousness, love...
...Hall pointed out that it is the ability to understand the universe and to take into consideration the physical and mental differences between the nations of the world that opens a wider scope to the soul. He showed the essential difference between the East and West. The West is governed by the great desire to "do." The philosophy of energy is instinctive. As Matthew Arnold says, "Worship of machinery supplants reverence for God. The East, on the other hand, is mastered by the conviction of the unreality of the world. All things, all persons, are but shadows to the oriental...
Appleton's Booklovers-"The Repertory Theatre and Herr Conried," by J. Corbin '92; "In Cure of Her Soul," by F. J. Stimson...
...next point which the lecturer treated at considerable length was the attitude of the ethical idealist who aims steadily at perfection, and cares more for the quality of life than for its duration. It is a great help to a soul which is beginning to realize that human life is not finite to come under the influence of great man who convinces everyone that his personality, at least, does not end with this life...