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...Harvard has educational advantages which cannot be found elsewhere. Yet the practical objections to the adoption of this ideal justice are great, and few would care to meet them. The growth of Radcliffe along the lines which it is taking promises a happy solution of the difficulty; it will avoid awkward arrangements and yet will open to women practically all the advantages open to men at Harvard. Organized on the same plan, offering largely the same courses, taught largely by the same corps of instructors, it will make any call for co-education in Harvard unnecessary. The relations...
...emphasize faith in our religion and neglect works. The most discouraging part of the controversies on church questions is the magnifying of unessential things. If we would observe the true proportion of things as their natural relation suggests instead of following our own hasty impulses and opinions, we should avoid a great deal of worry and trouble. The thing for us to do is to place ourselves, or seek to be placed, at some central point of view from which we can get the true perspective of the relations of life; and this we believe to be the hand...
...burlesque, but rather a play which shall call for serious criticism, the play this year is a comedy in three acts, which are named respectively, Death, Resurrection, and Re-incarnation. The plot embodies financial difficulties, spiritualism and love. Mr. Pickletop, the cause of all the trouble, in order to avoid his creditors is spirited away to a haunted house, where he is confined longer thean necessary by his secretary, Brattle, in order that Brattle may marry the old man's daughter, although Pickletop unknown to the others had already picked out Brattle for his son-in-law. Pickletop succeeds...
...civilized nation can exist or has existed without it. It is absurd to cite cases of individuals who are rationalists, and to say "these men have existed without religion." Religion was born in them, they were brought up under its influence and surrounded by its advocates. They cannot avoid its effects. So since religious faith is essential to our progress, even more perhaps than trust in our senses, can there be anything more rational than to accept its testimony? Wisdom can never come without faith. If we then wish to know anything we must accept first the faith that...
...especial importance to be careful about eating with unwashed hands and to avoid contact with suspicious cases...