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...Jesus is to be regarded as in any special sense the word, the thought to be manifested must be fundamental and central. It must primarily represent not any truth about life but life itself. This universal and central truth must stand for the life of men in relation to their common source and in their relations to one another. The truth must be uttered in such a form that it may be universal and eternal...
...there is a high standard of honor to be kept up in college athletics just so long should we discourage and put down any tendency that seems to belittle the importance of such standards. We are sure that the captain of the senior crew, in taking this decided stand for a strict and faithful adherence to trust and duty, has the hearty support of the college...
...building of the character proposed would stand in the University for the religious life of the students. It would be to the new student the symbol of the welcome which it is now so hard to express; and to all students it would be a constant reminder of the high aims of the societies which are now almost hidden from view, and even from thought, in their obscure rooms. Its purpose would be anything but a narrow one, for the three societies now represent practically all shades of religious belief, and any new religious society would find a place...
...done, there is still a need felt for a further strengthening and building up of the religious interests. Following the example of certain other colleges which have their religious interests fostered in one building, the agitators of the new plan propose to erect a building at Harvard which shall stand pre-eminently for the religious life of the college and give it greater strength in the eyes of the college and of the outside public. For this purpose they would confine the new building strictly to religious interests, to rooms for the different religious societies, to accommodations for the college...
...editorial column the Monthly has has touched upon an important point, the recognition of scholarship at Harvard. As matters stand now there is very little incentive to high scholarship outside of pecuniary aid. There are, to be sure, the degrees with distinction, but just who holds them is only known to those "who look on the back of their Commencement program or who take the trouble to look in the newspapers the next morning. Some recognition more marked than this is needed. At the presentation of degrees on Commencement Day it is impossible, of course, to call up each...