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...course, the final and highest end of Bible study is, however, neither literary, critical, nor historical, but frankly devotional. The best use a man can make of his Bible is to study its teachings in the light of his own temptations, to study its biographies that he may learn to know more human nature; for in the Bible are written with marvelous force and clearness the lives of men of every character as well as of the Man whose character combined every trait of strength and nobility...
...accomplish definite work and not spend their energies to no avail. Concentration is important, but interruptions to a man's work are bound to come--calls which he cannot refuse to hear. To meet these calls upon his time and yet continue his own work a man must learn thoroughly such lavishness as marked the life of Christ, lavishness which shrinks from no amount of work and is of one spirit with the lavishness...
President Eliot welcomed the visitors to Harvard, and spoke of what American athletes should learn from the English. In the first place, they should learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same...
...Christian Association. Mr. Billings spoke of the changes in Harvard since his undergraduate days and especially of its growth from a college into a university. The greater size and scope of the university imposes new responsibilities up on men entering it; they are expected not simply to learn and acquire, but to give, to the life of the University and to the individual lives of men about them, their best physical, mental and spiritual ability...
...simply in imitating Christ. He gave the world his best; he took nothing he did not win; he was brotherly, and he sacrificed himself to Gethsemane's agony and Calvary's cross for men. If college men will strive after the ideal of the social Christ they will learn to live with the world and to serve the world...