Word: understands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University preachers or not, is one to be decidedly encouraged. Especially should the committee in charge attempt to have the heads of the larger preparatory schools present, for often the college man, unable to return to school, would seize this chance to keep in touch with former interests. We understand that this custom has been in vogue in the past. We hope it will continue and the opportunities for meeting these men increase...
...social distinctions. Christianity was used to bolster up temporal as well as spiritual power in the formation of the papacy, and in so doing lost most of the true interpretation of Christ's teachings. On looking back over history we can see how much more clearly men now understand the following of his teachings than at that time, yet many are still entangled in the meshes of dogma and theology. If religion is going to try to solve the social questions of today, it must come down to the facts of life. Religious service can be carried...
...same as it always has been, while the extension at the end will make it possible for every Harvard man no matter where he lives, to spend all of New Year's Day at home. The justice of the change can not fail to appeal to all who understand the conditions...
...between being worked and working--that the former is degradation, the latter civilization. This change of spirit in regard to labor is one of the greatest evidences of his progress. Moreover, by learning how to farm, cook, make bricks and so on, the students cannot help but get to understand the earnestness and soberness of life, and after graduation go out to spread these ideas among the mass of people, whose chief obstacle to progress is lack of experience...
...Smith began his lecture with a brief outline of the origin and history of the Chinese, and said that before one can understand the present conditions in China one must study the chief features of its civilization...