Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...country in particular, with its heterogeneous people, there is no prospect for unity in religion. Here, indeed, are many people who say they profess no religion. It is doubtful if the majority of the people of this country attend church. They must be taken into account when we think of religious union. They think Christ was simply...
...that they lay too much stress on individual salvation. But all that is needed is that men should shake off their old prejudices and recognize the truth that men of all religions are the same everywhere and that we have common interests with all of them. We sometimes think that we are the most highly cultured race of all peoples and we tend to divide and classify people from a very narrow point of view. If sometimes a man is advanced enough to throw off his old ideas and to see that all men are equal, he thinks that...
...have any adaptability for speaking make a huge mistake if they do not ally themselves with one of these clubs. The two best accomplishments a student can take away with him from Harvard are the abilities to think clearly, and to express his thoughts forcibly. Debating is a great aid to both. When a man can think clearly on his feet, he generally has no trouble in doing so at his desk. When he can speak to the point before other people, he finds it easy to formulate his ideas by himself...
Because a paper is occasionally called upon to deal harshly with college organizations college men are apt to think that adverse criticism is its typical mood; yet where a paper has "justice" for its by word it must sometimes deal thus harshly or it fails in its mission. In this spirit of justice we feel ourselves right in criticising adversely the work of the freshman eleven. It is an old story-and only the worse for its age. To begin with, the freshmen have little or no discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other...
...followed by Professor Taussig. The needs of democratic government, he thought, were constantly growing greater. Two things the discipline of college ought to give a student,-the ability to think soberly and capably on public problems, and a higher appreciation of honesty in both public and private life...