Word: wesleyanism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...their delegates. The eleven delegates were R. H. Dana, Harvard; H. A. Oakes, Yale; E. M. Hartwell, Amherst; E. P. Alexander, Mass. Agricultural; John Gunster, Williams; F. A. Thayer, Dartmouth; G. M. Spear, Columbia; J. B. Edgerly, Cornell; G. B. Underhill, Trinity; A. D. McClellan, Brown; H. H. Cotton, Wesleyan...
ANOTHER Methodist university is proposed! At Washington. Call it Wesleyan University of D.C.! Seven is a sacred number, and Wesleyan is a holy name. There are, already, six "Wesleyan Universities" in this country; this will fill up the measure! - University Herald...
...doctrine. What choice, therefore, is there between them? The schoolmaster distinguished us from them by saying that while we have the look materialistic, they have the look of "gentlemen rowdies." 'T is a rude expression, and I would not use it myself; but it shows the opinion of our Wesleyan friend to have been the same as mine, that Harvard is not much worse than Yale; while we are deficient in faith, they are deficient in works...
...been remarked-by a graduate of Wesleyan and a schoolmaster-that Harvard men are distinguished by a materialistic and atheistic look. Like an iceberg, they can be discovered at a great distance by the chill that floats around and with them; for, after entering college, the religious feelings of most are quickly congealed into solid infidelity by the influence of the Cambridge school of Theology...
Perhaps, however, we may gain some consolation by reflecting that only half the assertion of the Wesleyan schoolmaster is well founded. Materialistic the students certainly are. But atheistic:-are they not rather idolaters; their own persons being the idols of the being whom they adore, and whose characteristics one may learn from the peculiarities of their worship? His shoulders are broad and his chest deep from much practice with the oar upon the placid Elysian streams; his eyes are quick and sure of sight, for he is skilled in foiling the adroit pitcher of the Olympian nine; his vest...