Word: creationism
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...must regard the course of creation as real and purposeful, we must try to find the truth behind the blind wrack, we must conceive of the single life as entrusted with a purpose. If we fall of such conception, the terrors of this war are not to be approximated in the mere mortality of those who have died. Far more agonizing than the death of many million men is the death of hope. That has come when men decide it is not worth fighting for, the poor life...
...Louise Whitefield Bray, also a special student at Radcliffe, is adapted from a short story by Ellen Payne Huling. It concerns the dogmatic and terrible religious teachings of a narrow-minded parson on an island off the coast of Labrador. The "Harbor of Lost Ships" is the fanciful creation of a crippled boy whose death is hastened by the doctrines of the minister...
...pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly painting in the Metropolitan Museum. She was simply a innocent and gallant girl who said her prayers and did her duty even when it called on her to rescue a nation and die an abominable death. Up to this point, Mme. Farrar's creation is sound and historically accurate. And altogether, it may be said that most of the shocking details of the film may be laid on the adapter and not on the star...
...fail to appreciate the relation between the work and the man. The outstanding feature of President Eliot's leadership was his belief in the possibility of developing the individual and his invincible faith in the value of freedom as the great educator of men. His most important reforms--the creation of the professional schools, perfection of the three-year course for an A.B. degree, the development of the elective system--were all the result of keeping these ideals constantly in mind. In 1869, when he became President, Harvard College graduated one hundred and eleven men; when he retired...
...Payne Huling, a former Radcliffe student. The scene is laid on an island off the coast of Labrador. A life constrained by dogmatic religious principles and the fire and brimstone teachings of a narrow-minded parson is depicted by the play. "The Harbor of Lost Ships" is the fanciful creation of a crippled boy whose death is hastened by the terrible doctrines of the minister...