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...intellect. We cannot trust our intellect or our sentiment alone to give us the whole broad meaning of religion, but we must open our whole being, and try to receive as much of religion as we can. He who does not feel the spiritual life is dead to the richest experience given to humanity...
...invaluable bibliography of theatrical literature, should become a part of the Harvard collection of drama and theatrical history through the liberality of one of the leading actors of this country. The kindness of Mr. Drew makes the Harvard collection of books and pamphlets on theatrical history probably the richest collection in the United States...
...power of the purse and is the fountain of all university honors. The Board of Overseers, with the power of reviewing, investigating and suggesting, but not of initiation, is the House of Lords, while the faculties correspond roughly to the Commons. "Harvard," says Professor Hart, "is now the richest university in America, but it is also the poorest university in the sense that no other has always such evident and crying needs." In considering the influence on the University in developing the manhood of the students, Professor Hart calls attention to the fact that never has there been so little...
...said Jesus, "is the symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven; with such lavishness God scatters blessings on fruitful and unfruitful soil." And what Jesus meant by the lavishness and prodigality of God was revealed in his own life--a life that never spared its energies, that gave of its richest and fullest powers to the outcast woman at the well in Samaria, to the fishermen by the sea of Galilee to the thief upon the cross. He knew that of the seeds he scattered so lavishly, though many fell amid rocks and thorns, some would fall where they would yield...
...Naval Observatory has the largest annual income--about $85,000. The National Observatory of France is second, with an income of $50,000, and the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, third, with $49,000. The Harvard Observatory and the Imperial Observatory of Russia, at Pulkowa, receive $46,000 yearly. The richest private Observatory is that at the Cape of Good Hope with an annual revenue of $33,000. In the relative values of their equipments the leading observatories rank differently. Washington has buildings and instruments valued at $856,500 but both the Yerkes and Lick Observatories have apparatus worth half...