Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...words, the present policy if maintained would obliterate the entire Boer population in less than four years. Even in December when it was claimed that great improvements had been made in the arrangements of the camps, there were 2880 deaths of which number 1767 were children. It is little wonder that the London Daily News (edited by Rudolph Lehmann, whom Harvard men can never forget) should speak of the policy as an "unutterable criminality...
...thoroughly religious they must be, in their own spheres, missionaries. If religion is to them a vital thing, a part of the very fibre of their lives and their interests, as it is meant to be, they cannot in conscience keep from trying to spread it. What wonder that religion is sometimes called a weak and effeminate thing, what wonder that it is often robbed of its influence and uplifting power, when men hide it in the solitary musings of their minds, and date not, or care not to die out it must grow through unselfish service and through philanthropic...
Absolute freedom in religious matters, also, is given to the university man. There is no one creed, no universal pressure of opinion for any one. Old forms of worship begin to seem childish, and men wonder if all religion is a thing equally as childish as those forms. The free man is bound to investigate fairly religious truths, and if any will do the will of the Father, "he shall know of the doctrine, whether...