Word: formula
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...leading article of the number, a discussion of Professor James's teaching, is decidedly interesting, emphasizing the helpful arguments of "The Will to Believe" and explaining a formula of the writer's own on ethical learning. "Before a Statue of Achilles" is an entertaining poem by Mr. Santayana. The fiction of the number is composed of three short stories and an autobiographical sketch of French school life. "With the Morning," a story by H. M. Rideout is capitally written. The writer succeeds in making a readable tale out of an unpromising subject. On the whole the Monthly starts the year...
...clever one and he desires to be initiated immediately. Thereupon the ceremony takes place, which is full of mock pompousness from beginning to and. The leading figure is the Praeses, or President of the Faculty, a dignified official who, with a sonorous voice, drawls out the Latin formulas. Two other doctors add their opinions in the same manner, and then, the bachelerius, or doctor-elect, makes reply. During these ceremonies there are continual interruptions of approval from the chorus, signified by gestures, clapping and the following formula...
Again, art must not be approached through philosophy. It is worse than useless to attempt to see a picture or a statute through the arbitrary line of a rule or a formula...
...Christian Association held its weekly meeting last night in Holden Chapel. C. E. Noyes, Gr., led, and gave a short talk on "Our Christianity." He said that college men are tested more than other men and their Christianity becomes a life instead of a formula and a creed. As they make their Christianity a life, evil becomes inconsistent with that life and thus is more easily kept...
When we try to sum up his teaching in a formula it seems like the uttering of common places. He spoke of God as the loving Father, of religion as an answering love which tries to shape the life into conformity with the divine ideal, of duty as being fulfilled in love. In His teaching religion and morality were so interfueed, had become so undissolably blended with one, that they can not be severed even in our thought. Men sometime speak of the sermon on the Mount as though it were merely a system of ethics. Every word is transfigured...