Word: commands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...absent. The point of honor involved in this intentional deception is sufficiently obvious; but in the College today it seems to escape the attention of many who pass in the eyes of themselves and of their fellows for strictly honorable men. More than this, there are men whose characters command respect, who are yet not ready to admit that they do anything dishonorable by occasionally deceiving the office as to their whereabouts. If they did so as a regular thing, their consciences would be troubled, but for just once or twice when a cut would not appear well in their...
...much questioning often leads to pessimism which is naturally a religious disease. But no man who reflects can help believing that there is a spirit in things which commands reverence and if there be such a divine spirit, nature can not be its revelation to man, because visible nature is too indifferent to command our worship. We look then to a greater universe of which nature is only a part. Of this universe man's religious faith is only the scaffolding, and so must religion involve the idea that in some way one must die to this world before...
...Concord fight. The day went more and more against the regulars, and about noon they began to retreat. The farmers pursued them to Lexington, where, near two in the afternoon their numbers were augmented by a large reinforcement sent out from Boston, under Lord Percy. Percy and his command, however, instead of turning the unequal battle, merely joined the retreat. The regulars continued to flee, the embattled farmers to pursue, until towards sunset the British soldiers reached Charlestown, and the protection of British guns. Thus ended the Concord fight, and with it the first passage at arms of the American...
Many freshmen, especially those who are so happily advanced as to have fair command of written speech, are disposed to regard English A as an arbitrary infliction on the part of the heads of the department. Were these men aware of the many specimens of outrageous word structure (it is nothing more) furnished by the entrance examination papers, they would change their opinion. Under present conditions, English A must be regarded as a necessity, though a very disagreeable one, and somewhat shameful. At once, then, the question arises whether the conditions might not be changed; whether boys might...
Christ praised the centurion because it was this soldierly quality that he wanted his disciples to have - the power to obey, and growing out of that, the power to command. We need to follow the centurion's example today. The scholar has first to learn to obey, to conform to rigid discipline, before he reaches the point where he is qualified to choose his own course of study. Obedience is the first lesson which the business man has to learn. In the moral world, training and discipline are absolutely necessary to the man who would withstand sudden temptation. He must...