Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hebrew Language and Literature, will lecture on "The Relation of Primitive Christianity to Jewish Thought and Teaching" in King's Chapel, Boston, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. This is the sixth of a course of free public lectures on the general subject, "Christianity as a Religion of the Spirit under Historical Conditions," given by professors of the University during the winter months under the auspices of the Lowell Institute. Admission is free, and no tickets are required...
...condition in which the class of 1910 has been placed by the spirit in which the result of the first election has been accepted is serious enough to constitute, if not an actual split, at least the imminent possibility of one. Both parties to the strife have used methods which ought never to find a place in College elections. Partisan zeal and prejudice have been turned to account in ways which are particularly objectionable in Senior year, when nominees should be considered on their merits alone...
...hold the second election now, when this party controversy is at its height, would be manifestly unwise. Whether a postponement will make matters any better is not certain; the experiment is at least worth trying. A calmer spirit on both sides may do much toward patching up in the second election the differences which are now so threatening...
...lecture on "The Physical and Social Conditions in which Christianity Arose, as Illustrated by the Palestine of Today," in King's Chapel, Boston, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. This is one of series of free public lectures on the general subject "Christianity as a Religion of the Spirit under Historical Conditions," being given by Harvard Professors during the winter months under the auspices of the Lowell Institute...
...verse, there are two poems of merit. E.E. Hunt, in his modern rendering of "Sir Orfeo," shows genuine literary conscience in sticking to the spirit of the original and in avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...