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...President Eliot to a western city is to gather together the Harvard alumni and to revivify the Harvard Club of that part of the country. Now that the Faculty have taken away one of the means whereby the western graduates can keep in touch with Harvard, they should, I think, take particular pains that the other does not fail...
...question, 'What think ye of Christ,' is one which all must ask themselves. It is not a philosophical or a political question such as the Pharisees were continually propounding. It is a question of personal allegiance to Christ and His Church, and the answer to it determines whether or not a man is a Christian. Christ's apostles and disciples may differ on minor points, but they are all agreed on this main point. The answer to this great question will determine all subsidiary questions for us, and yet few have really put the vital question to themselves...
Some of us think of Christ as one who led a wonderful life and who left his impression on the world for all time; but we are apt to think of Him too much as a Master. He seems to assume the leadership over all of us, both Pharisees and multitude. He was so perfect that we are afraid of Him. When we think of His calm, sweet life, and His fearlessness of death, we regard him with a kind of superstitious veneration. When we think of the mysterious greatness of His character we feel infinitely small and insignificant...
...days later they hated Him and cried to the governor for His crucifixion. We despise the fickleness of the miserable rabble, and yet cannot help but feel that we ourselves posses some of its weakness. We cannot be strong in our faith unless we ask ourselves what we really think of Christ, and hold a steadfast faith in His love and forgiveness without trying to understand the mystery which surrounds...
...Last winter, for instance, the advent of the Harvard musical clubs at Indianapolis was the signal for the reunion of Harvard graduates from many parts of the State of Indiana. After the entertainment at the Republican Club a meeting was held and the Harvard Alumni Association of Indiana (I think that was the name of it) was formed. I have never seen any public mention of this fact. Of course the fact itself was of no consequence when the musical clubs were responsible for it, but when the President of the University accomplishes that for which the musical clubs...