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...while there have been all these changes there has been no change in the character of the Harvard man. Methods of instruction may come and methods of instruction may go, but the college boy with the beauty of God on his face goes on forever. It is always a contest between brute courage and manliness on the one side, and on the other, meanness, flabbiness, and cowardice. The result of the contest is to determine which boy goes to Heaven and which to the bad--or to the devil...
...solemnizing power of simplicity and truth. Then too, he demands the opportunity of growth. Perhaps his religion is best characterized by his desire for active service. Philanthropy is the college man's way of expressing his faith; and it is largely by means of philanthropy that the spirit of God is felt throughout the world...
This code is elevated by such elements as work, student honor, family pride, love of country, love of nature, love of God, and lastly, love of man. President Eliot said this love of man is the ultimate idea of religion and that in it all the others find their expression...
...Washington Gladden gave an address at Brooks House last evening, on "Robert Browning's Argument for God." He said in part...
...Browning assumes the existence of God; and in his search to confirm his faith, he finds God manifest in power, knowledge and love. In all the vastness of nature, he finds God's power; and blended with power, he sees knowledge, for this power of God always works intelligently. But it is through His love that God shows himself most clearly to Robert Browning love for which the human heart cries out; infinite love which is the true explanation of infinite power and infinite knowledge...