Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale have been the first to show it in this form, and their example has been quickly followed. Other colleges, especially in the West, have instituted such debates; and in time this form of intercollegiate contest, of more benefit and greater intellectual development in the end. will become more common...
...this not because I believe that the Union would suffer from competition, but because I believe it is better for the interest of public speaking to have one society which shall contain all the best speakers in the university than for the speakers, who really have a common interest to be divided against themselves. In other words, there is a certain amount of speaking talent here; one society containing it all must be stronger than either of two societies each of which could contain only a fraction of that talent. Furthermore between two societies there would be likely to spring...
...William G. Anderson has prepared a handbook on "Gymnastics for Common Schools," which has been published by the State Board of Education...
...talk to a large number of students at the Christian Association rooms last evening. He spoke briefly of some of the problems of city life as he had seen them. The tendency he said, of people to herd together is as marked abroad as in our own country. The common opinion that this is a great evil is a mistaken one. The evils in the large cities, as they are more concentrated, are of course more apparent, but he average is not much if any worse in the cities than in the towns...
Bryce has said in The American Commonwealth, that a free government has always prospered most among a religious people. But more than this without a people who are religious, who have a common brotherhood, there can be no free government...