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...university community has lost in him a tireless helper; historical students everywhere have lost a guide; but to us who were privileged to serve under him the loss is immediate and personal. Our debt to him is twofold. Each of us has profited, by the daily contact with a masterful personality, by the stimulus of a high-purposed leadership, by the example of a marvelous industry. This is the debt we owe as individuals...
...purpose of the Catholic Club generally stated is twofold: First, to promote the religious interests of the Catholic students of Harvard, to assist in every way possible Catholic young men who purpose coming to Harvard, and to receive them upon their admission. Secondly, to quicken the spirit of Christianity among the students. The club meets once a month, when it is addressed by prominent men, both lay and clergy. Twice during the year public lectures are given in Sanders Theatre...
...club is divided into two courts: a Supreme Court, formed of the second year men; and a Superior Court, formed of the first year men. The object of the club is to hear and decide cases and points of law. The members of the Supreme Court have a twofold duty; they must sit at a meeting of their own court, which is presided over by a third year man or a member of the Faculty; and they must act as presiding judges at the meetings of the Superior Court, which meets once a week, while the Supreme Court meets once...
...Union the writer made several excellent points in favor of some radical change. However, instead of outsiders criticising the Union and suggesting sweeping changes in its constitution, why would it not be well for them to organize a new debating society altogether ? Two societies will increase the interest not twofold merely, but many fold. Each will stimulate the other. Joint debates might then he arranged between the two local societies as a preliminary to the Yale debate A new debating society is needed here at Harvard - not because the Union is a failure, for it is not. but because...
...sure to show itself in their organized life. Thus the American people has thoroughly organized popular politics, and the English people society. The Hebrews in like manner organized their religion. Any division of the history of this organization into periods must be understood as only roughly correct. A twofold classification seems however justified by the fact that in Israel, as elsewhere, theology grew up in advance of anthropology. The books of the Old Testament written before and during the exile treat mainly of God; the later books aim to define and explain the position of man in the world...