Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...allowed for the examination has expired. The noise and confusion caused by men leaving the room and the consciousness that some men have finished their papers while they are still working, tends to confuse the other men and to hurry them so that they finish their papers without proper thought or care...
...responsibility thus placed upon him as a trust which demands his strongest and unremitting efforts, he devotes himself to his duty in a spirit which wins the admiration both of fellow members of the team and of the whole University. In the course of time he finds that his thought is so concentrated on the task which he has undertaken that he is unable to put his mind on anything else. Apparently with a full knowledge of possible consequences he chooses deliberately to continue in the same course and, as now appears, subjects himself to the college discipline...
...true that our numerous organizations in the University, the aims of which are very noble, are really a great benefit to the University, but still the thought comes, is there not some way to unite, in a public way, the spirit of individuals assembled here for the cultivation of a generous feeling toward the welfare of our nation. The formation of the young men's various political clubs is a step in the right direction, and as there is no place on the American continent that will begin to compare with Harvard for its young men of ambition, enterprise...
...Crothers spoke of the work of the society and its limits. He said that the liberal religion of the University demands a society to which belong all religious topics bearing upon life. The freedom of religious thought, however, should not influence men to turn the union into a philosophical debating club. It takes religion for granted, and every one in difference with this acceptation should reason it alone. The society should always be broad in its ideas but never vague...
...Harvard; and of all these societies, the only one to which a man with broad religious ideas can come, is the Religious Union. It is composed of men whose feelings will not permit them to join the other religious societies. In a work its object is mutual religious thought and unity of religion...