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Fifty years ago, he said, the object of every Christian church was to find out how the early church was managed and then to base on this its own organization. But now everything is changed. No church would want to change its forms of service and government and accommodate itself to the primitive methods of the early Christians which would very naturally be now utterly impracticable. That this is true was conclusively shown about twelve years ago when a manuscript was found showing how the church was managed in the first century. When the discovery was announced every sect, Baptist...
order and proportion. Ben Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of being understood,- a remark which time has fully justified, and which I never could help sorrowfully applying to a writer of our own day, Mr. Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate...
This is not quite fair. We do not want to have things represented as temporary; bear them, accordingly, with good grace; and later on find that they are bound upon us hard and fast. The difference between something permanent and something indefinitely temporary we hardly see; and while we believe that students should and will show their willingness to meet the present necessity, we also insist that the Corporation, on their side, ought to take some decisive steps to remedy matters. What pledge is there that the whole of Memorial shall not some day be turned into general tables? Classes...
...present kitchen facilities can provide for is 1300, so that a limit is here reached if the basement is not enlarged. The whole question is to be brought up again by the directors, before the present board goes out of office, at the end of April. The directors want to get at the general feeling in this matter, and they can be materially aided if those interested will send suggestions to them...
...arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which is, after all, the highest result of all education. For what we want is not learning, but knowledge; that is, the power to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence and a widener of our intelleciual sympathies...