Word: clung
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poems which have come down to us from the early races we see that there is a strange confusion between the ideas held as to the future state and the actual usages contemporary with them. This is explained by the fact that men in all time have clung to usages long after the ideas on which they are based have passed away...
...method of coaching, it is understood, will be that of the old school, from which the younger generation of oarsmen at Harvard has long departed, but which has been clung to by Oxford and Yale...
...Virgil was interesting to him only because they led him through the universe. But Petrarch thought of the present world, the life of to-day, and the classics were interesting to him as expressions of men's lives at that time. Petrarch was a "humanist." Dante still clung to the religious beliefs and drawbacks of mediaeval times...
...know, to be sure, that our other buildings are designated by single names, but the present case seems to me to be entirely different. I do not think that I ever heard Phillips Brooks called solely by his last name. Even when he was Bishop Brooks, we all clung fondly to our "Phillips Brooks." In fact we knew only Phillips Brooks...
...during ten of the busiest years of his life. One of the few things that ever made him show impatience, was the consciousness, which came over him at times, how far the university fell below the very high ideal which he set for it and to which he always clung. In return, there certainly has been no one with in our memory towards whom the whole body of undergraduates have felt as they have toward him. Even among men whose usual attitude toward religion is inclined toward hostility, I never have heard him spoken of except with respect, often with...