Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Again, when he concludes that "the final classification of the motives is the classification of pleasurable and painful feeling," he misrepresents men in many of their actions. Not to value human nature too highly, we can at least lay claim to some better motives than these. We should be unwilling to believe that all actions are induced by the wish to obtain pleasure or to get rid of pain, and that a feeling of right or duty was never considered in men's actions. There is in every man's nature something which calls for higher springs of action...
...books on the floor. Files of important newspapers have to be stowed in out-of-the-way places, and we hear there is no room on the shelves for a dozen additional volumes. If an addition is to be made to Gore Hall, the sooner it is done the better. Each year increases the necessity and importance of such alterations...
...been well said that in these days of extended learning no one subject can be thoroughly grasped. Still better does this apply to the mastery of two or more subjects; facts are multiplied to infinity, theories follow the same progression, and the absurdity of memorizing these in any definite way is but too evident to the man of average ability. For this reason a student's first step in real life is the foundation of his library; he collects about him works on whose authority he can rely, writers to whose judgment he can defer. His next course...
...little play for originality; lastly, though not least, the system of cribbing would be permanently checked. It would be the for student's interest to collect all the reference he could; his honor would no longer be endangered, and he might leave college with a purer conscience and a better sense of the justice of high marks...
...Scientific crew, which has worked hard all winter and spring, would undoubtedly have made a much better show if their No. 5 had not the misfortune to slip the button of his oar beyond the rowlock, which of course necessitated their stopping at a time of vital importance to them, and when their position near the stake was wrested from them. Yet as soon as possible they started again, and almost recovered the whole ground lost by the end of the race, coming in a good second...