Word: supportables
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...confident in the piety of their own white-chokered Faculties, and a little puffed up, perhaps, by an unusually successful prayer-meeting, exclaim with a pious shudder at the irreligion of Harvard. The second article in the Magenta is a comforting statement of our religious tendencies, chiefly resting for support upon the societies in College which represent the various denominations. Without attempting to discuss the value of such testimony, it may be mentioned that of one of these societies the members number over sixty, and yet it has been often found difficult to assemble the fifteen who constitute a quorum...
...order of age, stands the St. Paul's Society, founded in 1861. This, again, may be compared to an Episcopal church. It is designed to draw Episcopalians together, "afford them opportunities of uniting in worship agreeably to the spirit and forms of their church, and of giving counsel and support in the performance of Christian duties." Then, closing the list, and founded in 1871, is the Christian Union. This also may be compared to a Unitarian church. It admits all interested in religious things without regard to their doctrinal belief, and seeks to cultivate in them more earnestness and truth...
...bent in the right direction, is evidenced by her appreciation of foreign art and the number of Americans to be found everywhere on the Continent in the pursuit of art studies, as well as by the ever-increasing array of native artists. Whether these beginnings will receive sufficient support and encouragement to result in anything like an original school of art remains yet to be seen; but there are many hopeful indications. Boston has certainly taken a step in advance in the undertaking of an art museum, which, besides being architecturally beautiful itself, is intended to present to the public...
...best in the country; and its extension and improvement will confer honor, not only on the University, but on the State. It has reached its present position mainly through the personal efforts and the personal popularity of Professor Agassiz. But to extend the building or even to support its present necessary expenses, large sums are needed. The amount of these is so large as to be beyond the limit which a private philanthropist can hope to reach. It is a most natural course, then, to ask that the State shall assume this burden, which is a comparatively light one when...
...ourselves? Of course I do not claim that it is developed in any of us to the same degree it was in that representative man, for the very good reason that few of us feel desirous or able to spend the three or four millions required annually to support the spread-eagle style on such a scale before a gaping world. Do not, however, set down the trait as a characteristic of him alone, or even, as you may quite willingly do, attribute it also to A, and admit that you have observed it in B; but consider honestly your...