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...source, "Q," of Matthew and Luke makes three points especially clear, Jesus' seriousness of life, his emphasis on forgiveness, and the difference between his teaching and that of the Pharisees. "Q" also brings out the sympathetic and forgiving tenderness of Jesus. The third emphasis that we find in the document is the seriousness of life. The call of Jesus is no easy-going one, but one of heroism and difficulties...
...basis of the Council as regards constitutionality, it will fail to be effective unless it is thoroughly representative of all the undergraduates. The constitution has provided for this admirably, but even the constitution is helpless in bringing it about unless the men turn out to vote. No written document can elect the right men to serve on a board of this or any other kind--it is a matter for every man in the University to take a hand in and see to it that those men are elected to whom they would most willingly trust the powers...
...year after compulsory religious exercises in the University had been abolished, and the voluntary system introduced. The letter was written to Charles Lewis Slattery '91, now Dean of the Cathedral at Faribault, Minnesota, who has now given it to the Phillips Brooks House. It is an interesting and characteristic document both in form and contents, and is well worth careful inspection. Yours truly JAMES HARDY ROPES...
...person the "Vote of Thanks" passed by yourself and the Fellows of Harvard College in acknowledgment of the notice given by His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia of the generous gift which His Majesty proposes to send to Harvard University for the Germanic Museum. In receiving this document the Emperor spoke of his appreciation of the courtesies extended to Prince Henry upon the occasion of his recent visit to Cambridge and asked me to thank "Harvard" for them...
...Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members to a feast of which all partook. This was gradually set aside, until it became a sacrifice offered by a Priest on behalf of the rest. At the Reformation...