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...then this lack of knowledge is due to simple neglect, it should be corrected. Every intelligent person should be acquainted with the Bible; every cultivated man should be interested in it. The difficulty seems to lie in the question, whether the study of the Bible can be separated from religion. To answer in the affirmative seems like stating a paradox. This fact, however, seems clear: that religion may be left in the background, with the idea of literature in the front. As literature the Bible has an almost universal appeal. Bible classes are not crowded, because every man feels that...
...absolutely no mention whatever of the German and Dutch schools, of the later French schools, of portraiture or modern painting, of the Preraphaelite or English school with the sole exception of Turner. Indeed, one-half of the subject is dictatorially passed over. Is not this a rather serious neglect of so important a sphere of general culture as Fine Arts...
...greater than has been generally perceived because of the orthodoxy of the unthinking masses. But among trained philosophers there is intellectual chaos. There is no one voice sufficiently authoritative to carry with it any conviction beyond a personal preference. The tendency is growing, not to deny God, but to neglect His influence in daily life...
...perhaps because the benefits to be obtained from the compilation of careful and complete lecture notes are so obvious, that these benefits receive but little consideration. But whether this or mere inertia be the cause, there are at all events, men who utterly neglect note taking, and many whose notes are inadequate and merely perfunctory...
...have already been made to improve the rooms in the Yard and many more are promised before next fall. All these will be discussed this evening. The opportunity to learn the facts of the case from such good authority is one which members of the Junior class should not neglect...