Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mystics." He pursued a post graduate course in theology at Andover, and also in philosophy at Harvard, under Professor Palmer. During his pastorate of two years at the Auburn Street Congregational Church, Paterson, N. J., he has found time to publish two articles in the New Englander which have attracted notice. These are entitled: "The Metaphysical Basis of Belief in God," (September 1883), "An Analysis of Consciousness in its Relation to Eschatology," (November, 1884). Theologically, he is believed to be in the main in sympathy with advanced views of the so called Andover type. While without practical experience in teaching...
...religious meetings held in Holden on Sunday evenings for the past few weeks have been so well attended as to attract the attention not only of those directly connected with the university, but of others who know Harvard only by name and reputation. Some papers go so far as to head their reports with, "Revival at Harvard," a heading which hardly corresponds to the state of feeling that exists here, if to "revival" we must give the common newspaper meaning. Still on the part of many members of the college greater interest in matters of a religious character has been...
...learn of their manner of thinking. This system of having public lectures is daily growing more and more popular; especially is this the case at Harvard. The mere announcement that a certain well known man will speak on a particular evening is sufficient to attract the attendance of a large body of students. This is perfectly natural. A man studying a certain profession, take the law as an example, is sure to derive great pleasure and benefit from a lecture on that subject; he goes with the idea that the speaker will give his views...
...Harvard and Yale as colleges which held out inducements to students by offering prizes at the freshman examinations. We do not know what is the practice at Yale, but at Harvard no prizes of any description are awarded at the freshman examinations. Harvard depends upon her own merits to attract students to its halls, and does not need any little system like that which the Princetonian advocates, to add to the size of her already rapidly growing freshman classes...
...exposed to the caprices of any individual; he must not be waiting to hear what he is to pray for; he must be borne along by a familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold...