Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other foot. Whereas before it has been dangerous in the extreme to knock the existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used to cherish the vague idea that everything was all right it now cries with a morbid glee that Heaven and Earth and Hell thereunder are all hopelessly out of joint with no chance of ever being set straight again...
...Jelly and the one several weeks ago concerning private appropriation of library books must express the sentiment of that vast group of college students who love books because books can be friends. But you ought to notice editorially that smaller groups of college students who entertain no such love, cherish no such fondness, for the sanctum of books. In the endeavor to please that smaller group, I suggest the following...
...that because they had to labour they have learned all of today. Another part have no knowledge from experience. They shun those who have labored, cling to themselves in order that they may hear their own thoughts from the lips of another.--most insidious flattery! Part are alone and cherish their loneliness lost they lose an illusion of superiority...
...effort and continuing self-sacrifice and generous benefactions, sometimes to the point of self impoverishment, on the part of numberless men, through long periods, as at Dartmouth for more than a century and a half. It is an invaluable privilege, rightfully to be claimed only by men who will cherish it and who have or will cultivate the ambition to realize the ideal for which it stands, namely that they may know the truth...
...agriculture and ceramics. Both, like Colgate, might without much injustice be called by the title that Hobart, Wells and Hamilton are content to bear the title "college." But they are as strong as many universities that in other parts of the country enjoy greater reputation, and they doubtless cherish hopes of becoming universities of the first rank. N. Y. Evening Post...