Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast is noble; but if he thinks he is fated to be miserable, will that not extinguish his hopes, will that not break his spirit? Certainly, I might answer, and he must have a spirit broken already, who would not rather be sobered by truth than tickled...
...that intellect and will are the ultimate elements, the way lies open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles in its way; yet with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers...
...cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean sometimes action and sometimes only permission; in the first case, action becoming possible becomes at the same time necessary, so that freedom means that a given force works unimpeded; in the second case, action remains merely possible, and freedom means that a given obstacle does not exist...
...clause by clause, and very thoroughly discussed and amended. By the first clause, the students gain a very considerable advantage; for by it any resolution passed by them has the same weight as faculty committee resolution; and the faculty members of the committee are also bound to report the action of the faculty back to the student members. When the clause for the appointment and election of members was reached, three or four schemes were proposed; one of minority representation, a very complex one, providing for delegates from the societies, athletic bodies, and newspapers, and the one which was finally...
...majority vote of the student members, a resolution which the faculty members, a resolution which the faculty members shall report,-like the report of a committee-as soon as possible to the faculty; and the faculty members shall, as soon as possible, report back to the student members the action of the faculty in regard to the report, and the grounds of this action...