Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...aspiration to be manly. And as he gets into school, he there tries to exemplify his conception of the word. But unfortunately he often gets a wrong idea, and comes to think it manly to frequent the bar-room, or gambling places. It is an evil that is common to most men at certain stages of their lives, an evil for which society is responsible. A man's idea will conform not to what he ought to be, but to what he is allowed...
...make this thing a success, Ninety-four should turn out in a body and let its class loyalty be known. Every effort will be made to have the dinner a thoroughly unpartisan affair. For the time being, at least, all will meet on a common level and the grouping of men by cliques will be avoided as far as possible. The committee is anxious that a feeling of comradeship should prevade the dinner. At no time in the history of the class has Ninety-four had a chance to unite as one body, with one interest. This dinner should...
...home from old age. He graduated from Harvard at the age of eighteen and afterwards studied law with the late Leverett Saltonstall. He was always active in public life, and devoted to his profession in which he had amassed a great fortune. Mr. Wheatland served in the Salem Common Council in 1841 and in the board of Aldermen in 1842-43. He was a brother of Dr. Henry Wheatland, the president of the Essex Institute...
...then that the church has at times fallen away and substituted the rights of religion for the real expression. The ceremony and framework in religious work has a place as long as it is the channel and not the substitute for real religious feeling. Let us not make the common mistake of thinking there is any virtue in suffering, pain or sacrifice for their own sake. The laws of nature when kept mean everywhere joy and happiness; broken laws bring pain and suffering...
...class in all the four years of college life meets together in anything like social relations. It is the one unifying force; the one opportunity before class day for men to put aside all the barriers which divide the class into endless cliques and to meet on a common level. While we may not regret on the whole that class feeling is not to-day of the same strength and character which was common to classes of fifty years ago, still there are a few old customs like the junior dinner which we can well cling to. We hope...