Word: cante
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...Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first...
...universities of Scotland, all Christian work has been arranged with reference to this outsider; and the first principle of all such work is the avoidance of cant, in any form whatever. More than this, it is a settled thing that no religious man shall interfere with the college amusements or with the college work. On the contrary, they try to interest the busiest men, with the feeling that these can do their work and yet find time to help their fellows. They never interfere with a student's creed; what they want in his life; and they have thus widened...
...passionate sympathy with his own time won the Continent to him, while his artistic defects turned England aside. Examined critically Byron's verse is full of flaws, but has above all other verse of this century the force lent by passion. He was a passionate foe of cant...
...matter of organization, but the courage to face one's highest ideal, to acknowledge Jesus Christ is of a far higher kind. Emerson once said: "The best way to confess Jesus Christ is to say nothing about Him." I sympathize with Him because there is so much hypocricy and cant, but nevertheless we ought all to come out and gravely place ourselves under our Leader's banner...
...work of the Harvard Young Men's Christian Association during the past year has been of the kind to be proud of. It has been practical and free from cant, of the nature which, in a University like Harvard, is bound to have the most telling effect. Not, however, in the college alone has the work been carried on; the members have been seeking outside for chances to carry out the purposes of the Association. That the society should succeed, when the members show such an earnestness in the phase of work which they represent, is not strange...