Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...divisions, sound, it is true, a little learned, and may have given the impression that the lecturer appeals only to specialists in history and politics. The French language is also a barrier. But how are we ever going to learn French unless by listening and trying to understand it? And the course, so far from being especially for students in history, has so far revealed itself as just the reverse. M. Millet is primarily a man of living affairs, and his talent for bringing out the human essence involved in complex situations is incomparable. For vivacity, naturalness...
Four pages of the report are devoted to a severe but discriminating arraignment of the game of football. President Eliot declares it is time that the public should understand and take into earnest consideration the objections to this game. As the lesser objections he mentions extreme publicity, the large proportion of injuries, the absorption of the undergraduate mind in the subject for two months and the disproportionate exaltation of the football hero in the college world. "The football hero," he says, "is useful in a society of young men if he illustrates generous strength and leads a clean life...
...necessary as well as thought, together with a spirit of boldness and audacity which dares to hazard on its own ability the lives of a nation, and to brave misrepresentation and obloquy. Furthermore, the leader should possess sympathies so democratic, that, while above his followers, he may yet understand them and be one of them. True leaders are not cynics, but men who can aid and evoke in others bidden powers and hidden good...
...progress of the world is largely due, Bishop Carpenter said, to great personalities, and Jesus Christ was one of these. Unless we remember that he was also a great religious personality, we cannot understand him or appreciate his works. Religion, moreover, is a power in human life so great that no investigation of religious subjects which does not take cognizance of it will ever be satisfactory to a modern audience. We cannot have a religion without a theology, and we cannot estimate the value of our own theology without comparing it with the theologies of others...
...light of our later knowledge and experience, consider whether they rose to meet those opportunities or whether they missed them, and to wonder how those of the future who shall look back upon us, will judge that we have risen to our own opportunities or missed them. We must understand how unique are the opportunities for service offered to men of our day compared with those given to corresponding individuals who have gone before. The wonderful development of means of communication, means of intelligence, and means of production are forms of God's call to Christian service, are a trust...