Word: upliftment
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...represented by delegations of between fifty and seventy-five men, and other colleges in proportion. The advantage to be derived from the intimate association with Christian men from colleges all over this country and from England which can be had at Northfield cannot be overestimated. It gives a spiritual uplift which can come in no other way. If Harvard should send a large delegation to the meeting, which extends this year from June 29 to July 10, the men would bring back a practical enthusiasm which would give the whole religious life of the university a decided impetus. Those...
...saloons and today perhaps nineteen. Finally he said that if anything was to be accomplished there could not be a congregation of good or bad who had determined to help the bad but that the University was an individual which could not be divided and the degradation or uplifting of a part of its members could not help but degrade or uplift the whole and that every one by his own life was bound to do his best to overcome the downward tide...
Suggestions made by Professor Drummond and words spoken by some of the preachers to the University have led to a desire on the part of a number of students to make some effort toward helping to uplift the lives of the masses in the great city so near us. Encouraged by the success of meetings addressed by Rev. Phillips Brooks, which were held in Faneuil Hall last winter under the auspices of the Trinity Club, they have decided to try a similar work in another part of Boston. A petition signed by about fifty men and reading as follows...