Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers and men of the army. Regular soldiers do not hold torchlight processions or make public demonstrations. Above all, do not take part in "rooting" to encourage others to do what you will not do yourself. Do not have so poor an opinion of your fellows as to think they need the stimulus of a cheering crowd to make them do their duty, love their country, or have the courage...
...that figures by a small margin; it certainly will not exceed it. This is easily explained when it is remembered that so far this year, there have been few preachers to attract unusually large audiences. As regards morning chapel, on the other hand, the outlook is distinctly encouraging. I think that the final figures for the year will show an average attendance of 120 or more, compared with 105 last year. This increase is probably due more to increased interest in the daily service than to any change in the list of preachers...
...fact has been so impressed on the minds of those interested in chapel that at last they have taken active steps to see whether or not we cannot be sure that each day will call men to chapel to hear a man whom the undergraduates want to hear. I think that nothing proves more conclusively the wisdom of this attempt than the almost enormous attendance which greets Professor Palmer and President Lowell and the others who are chosen to lead the services during early weeks of the college year. This step toward careful and judicious selection of preachers was conceived...
...second place, I should like to complain of the difficulty which I have encountered in getting a corps of ushers on whom I could depend. It may have been due to may own inability to find the right men; but I am inclined to think that the fault is not wholly that. A surprising fact is that the most dependable ushers--indeed, those who are most ready to assume the cares of ushering--are the men who take the least active interest in the religious activities of the University. This is a case in which change may well begin...
...miscalculating community, which insults our dearest sentiments--a community which already has sent the shades of ancient horsecars and the good old days to perdition with garish, glaring lights; a community which demands in the Harvard Square station, of all demands that might have been made, an escalator. Think of rising from a Daedalian subterranean labyrinth through the jaws of Hadrian's tomb into the doors of College House--by an escalator. It is an insult to antiquity...