Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believes-principles which seem to him essential to the welfare of his country. Politics and religion are both vital subjects. The rule of the University has not been to disallow privileges to religious organizations of one sect or another, on the ground that some of them must be wrong, and therefore all must be excluded. The rule has been, rather, that all should be given the use of the University buildings, in order to allow free play of opinion and contact of antagonistic ideas; all this to further Harvard's unending search after Truth. The sentiment has been that...
...political party purposes. Sufficient reason for the action we have not been able tofind. "Political party purposes" is an ambiguous phrase: if it is interpreted as "political machinery," the Corporation is right; if it is interpreted as "political education," it seems to us that the Corporation is distinctly wrong. It is conceivable that political clubs formed by students should degenerate into the tools of political bosses, and, if so, their abolition would be commended. The simple fact is that the one political club in existence here is not in that degenerate condition. Its activity is practically limited to securing...
...such a manner as to spoil the field for other sports. Now while every chance should be given to a sport that is as popular as tennis, is it wise to cripple other branches of athletics for the convenience of the tennis association? There seems to be something radically wrong in any scheme that deprives us unnecessarily of one of our principal athletic fields. It is perfectly possible to build these courts at the western end of the field and in other places that will not interfere with the baseball ground. In fact the graduate manager has offered to build...
...found showing how the church was managed in the first century. When the discovery was announced every sect, Baptist, Unitarian, Episcopalian, and all the others were sure that it was going to show that they were following in the steps of the fathers and that the others were all wrong. When the manuscript was translated and printed, no one had a word to say. As might have been expected, the arrangements would not now be practicable. So we now study church history as history and not as a model. What we do study as church history is only a record...
...science and the understanding, seeks to give ideal expression to those abiding realities of the spiritual world for which the outward and visible world serves at best but as the husk and symbol. Am I wrong in using the word realities? wrong in insisting on the distinction between the real and the actual? in assuming for the ideal an existence as absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks...