Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Unless some unforeseen circumstances arise, Harvard will very likely receive another bequest-this time from the generous gift of the late Mr. Fayerweather. We understand that the legacy for Harvard is not restricted by many conditions, but may be applied for almost any special object which the authorities may think proper. It will not be hard to find uses for the money; on the contrary, the difficulty will be to decide, among so many needs, which is the most pressing...
...mistake to think of right and wrong as two definite places with a sharp dividing line between them. Right and wrong should be regarded as directions. If we take this latter view we shall be saved much temptation and sin. A man is led into sin by thinking wrong. He endeavors to go as far as possible towards this imaginary line without crossing from the right side to the wrong one, and before he is aware he has sinned. If on the other hand he had steadfastly set his face towards the Lord, he would have avoided...
...worship is not because at other times there is to be no communion with God, but because during the secular life, worship is apt to become too much subordinated. At the same time it is with Lent as with a college course. A may come to college and think when he has finished his four years that his education is complete, but if this is so he had better never have come to college. If a man thinks that because he has kept Lent in a certain way, his religious duties are then ended for a year he has committed...
...would be an idealistic state of affairs here if each member of a class should have implicit confidence in the justice of the others. We do not pretend that such a state is possible; but we should very much like to think that the men in Ninety-two believe that their fellows are gentlemen, and capable of being trusted to choose wisely and justly when the time comes. This utter lack of confidence it is, which is leading certain men, nearly a year beforehand, to organize and work systematically for power in the class day elections...
...would be interesting to know to what the success of the Israelites in solving the great problem was due. The rigidity of their national feeling doubtless taught them to think no other god but theirs necessary for the world. Yet they do not seem in the beginning to have questioned that the god of the Ammonites ruled in his own territory, and whenever occasion offered they themselves fell to worshiping the deities of the neighboring peoples. It is only by gradual evolution that the Israelites became monotheists, and we are driven in the last resort to account for their final...