Word: sentimentality
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...Chicago on "Authority and its Educational Value in the History of Christianity," and by Professor F. A. Christic of Meadville on "Conversion and Christian Nurture as illustrated in the History of the New England Churches," and Professor N. S. Shaler will speak on "The Emergence of the Religious Sentiment in the Education...
...Henry Van Dyke, D.D., of Princeton, spoke in Brooks House yesterday at 11 o'clock on "Life Work." He said in part: The Christian life is not a vague affair of sentiment, but a real and difficult vocation; being a Christian is, indeed, a life work, one which embraces and rises above all other callings. The Christian's first duty is the duty of a witness; he should witness to God, not only by word of mouth, but also by cheerful worship and by faithful and sincere service. The doctrine of Christianity has always been the doctrine of energy...
...crude in technique, is effective as a whole and symbolizes well what everyone is thinking today--"Who will win?" The first editorial is unusually good, and the second, more serious in tone than the ordinary Lampoon editorial, is a forceful statement and reminder of that deeper, more quiet sentiment which is the spirit of Harvard and underlies the cheering and singing and shouting which are the superficial manifestations of this spirit; the earnestness of the editorial makes it strong, though at times it carries it too far--into a somewhat censorious criticism of the noisier form of enthusiasm...
...privileged or exalted class; and to still others, beauty, decorum, pomp. He defined the religion needed in the college community of today as "that actual code of ethics which your community, race, nation or generation has evolved; that code infused and vivified by some sort of love of sentiment...
...last two answers must be considered more at length; though, as President Butler suggests, no general rule for all colleges is likely to prove desirable, for colleges may have "somewhat different ideals to labor for." Taking Columbia as an example, however, the four years' course appears too long. A sentiment against it has been growing up for many years and has been made manifest lately by Harvard's announcement favoring graduation in three years and by Columbia's provision which allows the last college year to be combined with the first year in the professional schools. Both of these plans...