Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...axiomatic that university study is valuable not so much for the actual book learning, but for the training in thinking. In devoting so much time to social and physical recreation, American students too often commit sins of omission in regard to study. Their French contemporaries are more apt to commit sins of commission in attempting to master an overwhelming mass of information. One university course abroad includes thirty French authors and twelve ancient authors, with a knowledge of the complete works of three. The attempt to cover so much material encourages mechanical learning of facts far more than original thought...
...willful failure to report the full amount, and Bishop Cannon with "aiding and abetting'' her, which if proved makes him equally guilty. Four counts charge mere technical, unwitting violations, implicating the Bishop in the same manner. The remaining two counts charge conspiracy "with divers other persons" to commit the (willful) felony and the (unwitting) misdemeanor...
...Emperor would not forgive me and my position was impossible. I would be more than ever at the mercy of eunuchs, who had abused me for nine years. So I decided to commit suicide...
Though she had won so much, Concubine Shu Fei still smarted last week under the rebukes of her brother. He, a confirmed bootlicker of Manchus, had reminded her by letter that the duty of an Imperial concubine is, of course, to commit suicide rather than displease her lord. Conscious of this moral duty, Shu Fei cried last week, "But I had planned to kill myself, I swear...
...remember that at the time the Emperor was forced out of the Forbidden City, you carried a knife under your sleeve, ready to commit suicide should any mishap occur to the Emperor or yourself? What a holy and divine spirit was that, and how you have changed now into a different person...