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...plan of forming an intercollegiate debating union is by all odds the most interesting and important topic which American college students will have to deal with for some time. Athletics have held full sway in college life for a good many years and have been the sole subject for intercollegiate competition; but as the all-important factor in college life they have had their day. They will continue to be important, but they must share importance with contests of intellect and oratory. In the organization of this new movement for the equality of brain and muscle, Harvard adds one more...
Power is a visible force. It almost always shows itself in violence of some sort and its instruments are consequently strife, war, and death. But history shows that power has come more and more under the sway of justice, right and love. Kings have found that the abuse of power endangers their own lives and that to make themselves secure they must temper power with humanity. Social power feels its duty toward the ignorant and all the forces of education and religion are being brought to bear on the problem of their salvation. Humanity, then, has influenced power...
Such poetry could not long hold sway. Soon there were men who thought seriously and felt earnestly. Such a man was Saint Francis, who led a merry life in his youth, but feeling a deep sense of the miserableness of common men, he turned to a life of quiet but joyful contemplation and fervid expression...
...unconscious holiness is of an urgent and inevitable nature, it persuades the weak, the timid, the wavering, and the inquiring; it draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces of unearthly majesty about...
...literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism, and Imaginative Writing. The last subdivides into Drama, Poetry and Fiction. In all these branches, Realism, which in France began about 1840 as a revulsion from the violent romantic outburst which preceded it, has held sway and has spread to other lands. The growing tendency has been each year to subordinate the personal to the general, to reduce the importance of the individual, to enhance the value of all that is general and therefore, part of the exterior of life...