Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current year has surprised those even who advocated it the most strongly. The officers and students of the college, and a large part of the thoughtful public, have manifested great interest in the enterprise; because they see men of eminence belonging to four different communions, meeting on broad, common ground, and sinking their differences as to non essentials, that they may try to do good work for morality and religion in a field of peculiar difficulty and importance...
...should be full of reverence for the divine truth, and no self-conceited sceptic or enemy, with a mind open to conviction and a heart large enough for that thankfullness and love, and every Christian virtue. He should, in a word, be ready to take the lessons which the common mother reads to him from all her past life, and give them their own transforming and elevating power with in his soul. - Boston Herald...
...Love thy neighbor as thyself" is not a ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries...
...from San Francisco and the Pacific Slope, who now seems an indispensable part of Harvard, we must school ourselves to the idea of separation. However, notwithstanding this serious drawback, Stanford University has our best wishes. It is sincerely to be hoped that no mismanagement, such as is only too common in works of this time will prevent the fulfilment of the brilliant plans for the establishment of the University...
...this hasty picture of Harvard life I may perhaps have sadly disappointed readers who have formed their notions of the subject from sundry common reports frequently alluded to in the public prints. Harvard, according to these authorities, may be an excellent place for learning, but morally it is held to be a sink of iniquity. At Harvard College there are to-day more than a thousand students, from all parts of America, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Among these are naturally a certain number of young reprobates, who rather dislike their escapades to remain unknown...