Word: world
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...history of the world, he said, is the history of the broadening of the sense of man's personal responsibility to his fellow beings. From the time of the savage, the world has come to the time when a nation will fight for an oppressed people without the least thought of gain; and will send its ship laden with grain to a starving nation, from whom it has not received, and cannot receive, the least return. All the teachings of Jesus Christ centre about this vital principle of service. The aim of His life was ministering, not being ministered unto...
President Eliot followed the reading of the address of congratulation with these words, spoken on behalf of the Eastern Colleges and Universities, and of the educational world in general...
...through the centuries great men in the world's history have based their beliefs on the Bible and its study--Hildebrand and Augustine in the early times, Huss and Luther and Calvin in the later centuries, Washington and Lincoln and Gladstone in our own day. To such men the Bible was a source of strength and the chances are that it will so prove to college men of today. General appreciation of the Bible is growing stronger; men regard it with increasing respect and re-awakening interest...
...world of nature and the world of spirit reveal the lavishness of the gifts of God. For centuries the forces of electricity were in the world for men to use, while in their ignorance they dreaded it or toyed with it, until at last one mind grasped its meaning. For centuries God's offers of the power and nobility of the spiritual life were lavished upon every man, unaccepted, until at last Jesus Christ grasped them and lived them out in his wonderful life of leadership and service...
...university, the sense of a soldiers life. The university is the home of the ideal and, as President Gilman once said, if it does not hold up idealism, it has no reason to exist. Such a condition is necessary to oppose to the materialism of the business world. Thus it is that we get religion here in our midst. But the forced religion of the past which formed a part of the College curriculum was incompatible with truth as the standard of Harvard. University life is the supreme privilege, to take the idea of Spencer, of contemplating the energy from...