Word: everett
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Edward Everett Hale has recently given the Semitic Museum a collection of about three hundred Egyptian...
Professor Emerson '71 has written for the magazine a sketch of the life and work of the late Charles Carroll Everett, Dean of the Divinity School. The paper tells much of Dr. Everett's work which is not generally known, and cannot but be most satisfactory to his many friends. The sketch is accompanied by an excellent picture of Dr. Everett...
Professor Hyde, of Bowdoin College where Dean Everett was once a professor, explained in detail the Dean's philosophy and theological beliefs. Dr. Everett clearly realized that the spiritual life is one of constant self-surrender to the dictates of conscience and knowledge of the truth. He had little faith in sudden conversion, and believed true religion to be the slow, gradual growth in moral character that comes from babitual obedience to the highest ideals. His theology rested on the practical nature of religion; he believed that things are good in the measure that they are helpful, that things...
Professor C.H. Toy, spoke of Dr. Everett's work on the editorial staff of the "New World." His business ability, which is somewhat lost sight of among the greater traits of his character, was shown in the clearest light in his work for the financial success of the magazine. His editorial writing was brilliant and of lasting value, and in his articles he presented the gist of the religious thought of the times...
Professor F.G. Peabody, spoke of Dean Everett in a more personal sense. He was not only the leader among his colleagues in the Divinity School but was their adviser as well, and since his death professors and students alike have felt the lack of the sympathetic and ready counsel that he gave. Dr. Peabody spoke feelingly of the unconstrained relations between the Dean and his pupils, and gave an appreciative description of Dr. Everett as he appeared to his friends. He was a man of great clearness and loftiness of moral vision. He seemed to see and realize better than...