Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Religion, President Eliot said, means many things in this world: to some it is a magnificent ceremonial; to others, a certain sacred administration by a privileged or exalted class; and to still others, beauty, decorum, pomp. He defined the religion needed in the college community of today as "that actual code of ethics which your community, race, nation or generation has evolved; that code infused and vivified by some sort of love of sentiment...
...Tompkins was the first speaker. He said in part: The social problems cannot be solved except by men who have made them a part of their education and experience. To amount to anything in the world, the educated man must have a strong and healthy interest in the affairs of other men. Mr. Paine, the second speaker, spoke upon the appeal which the needs of the poor in the great cities should make upon the interest of all intelligent men; Harvard men ought to feel what the darker side of life is. Alms are not the whole of charity. Successful...
...World's Work -- "The Human Side of the Labor Unions," by M. G. Cuniff...
...provide bed, board and nursing at the Infirmary for the nominal sum of four dollars, may meet with a response which will at least reach the two thousand registrations necessary to put the plan into operation. Such a sick insurance is an opportunity of which many individuals in the world at large would be glad to avail themselves. Before any student decides not to send his registration card to the Bursar's office, would it not be well for him to consider the possibility of illness in his own case, or, if good fortune keep him well, the help...
...Lightner '03, presided, and Bishop Lawrence opened the meeting with a prayer. Mr. Mott, the first speaker, emphasized chiefly the necessity and value of prayer. What the world needs today is not more men, but more man; and the highest Christian manhood cannot be developed without prayer...