Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make such a feeling possible, it is necessary to use some traditional form of prayers, the older and more universal, the better. Thus each may feel that his prayer is the prayer of all; that it is not a selfish wish or capricious will that he utters, but the cry of all mankind. By using a ritual service of this sort, we may help to bring back this sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest...
Prof. Shaler will meet those who may desire information as to professional employment in Geology, and to various lines of work in which Geology can be made of use, on Monday evening, at 7.30. in room 2, Museum...
...section in Philosophy I will use as a text book for the rest of the year, Sterling's translation of Schwegler's "General History of Modern Philosophy...
...Cambridge Assemblies held in the gymnasium have proved a doubtful success. Without wishing to reflect at all upon the managers, for the lack of management displayed, we do desire to register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation to a few of the students, a sop to Cerberus, will not lull the students in general to overlook the inconveniences arising from the preparation of the gymnasium for general social purposes, the danger from a slippery floor, and the misplacement of apparatus. We do not wish to grumble, or seem unreasonable...
Protected in this way one may be tolerably sure of escaping the effect of the ascending steam. It is as if the authorities were either afraid we would use too much water, or else afraid of its being wasted by being left running. But in either case, why are the faucet in the tub baths of the proper kind? Surely it were well to be consistent. With this hint at a much needed improvement I await a result...