Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rather dislike their escapades to remain unknown. As a class, these students are rich, and may be said, I believe, to come of families not yet used enough to fortune to known quite what to do with it. Generally they are good company, and they are apt to belong to the fashionable societies...
...give place to one dictated by straightforward judgement, and that on Thursday she will present her eleven at Princeton to compete with the champion team. If she does not, it is gratifying to know that the Inter-collegiate Association will bestow the championship of '89 where it will then belong. We wish that it could quiet once for all the babbling that will inevitably begin on the day after Thanksgiving...
...imaginary than that which at times like this clothes a great institution with personality and makes it live in all the fullness of intelligence, and affection, and will. It is not an uncommon power. The first powers are not those which are exceptional and rare, but those which belong in general to all humanity and constitute the proof marks of its excellence. In every age the member of the body of Christ has seen the great expression of Christ's life, of which he was a part, stand forth sublime and gracious, as mother church. In every time of national...
...that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard students belong to wealthy families, and that they look upon politics as something beneath them. This is not true. Nineteen-twentieths of the students in Harvard must earn their own living after they leave the college. If they look askance upon politics, it is because politics does not offer them a living...
...intended in studying the history of English literature by centuries, to give a thorough study of the different writers. As has been several times expressed at the lectures, the idea of the courses is to give men a knowledge of who the writers are, what period and school they belong to, and what their general work has been. With this foundation laid, students can, in their reading of after life, read more understandingly and also be able to choose authors better to their taste. A man is put upon a good footing with the literature of his own language...