Word: conceited
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...from one who filled here for many years the place of a teacher in morals and religion. Many of you are in the common phrase professors of religion. While I rejoice in the fact I do not like the term. It sometimes cherishes a quasi-godly sort of self-conceit. and it keeps many out of the church who ought to be in it. I go to the table in my own house not because I profess to be well filled but because I am hungry and thirsty; and I ought to go to the Lord's table, not because...
...must be perpetually cultivated. We were not only glad to welcome Mr. Moulton at Harvard as a member of John Harvard's University, but a representative of foreign culture,-one who could exemplify to us new ideas, and give us a glimpse of methods which our independence or sell-conceit, whichever we may choose to call it, may not permit us to adopt entirely but which cannot fail to improve our own by example or comparison. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in 1886, gave Harvard men the opportunity to have a long series of lectures by the delegate...
...Question of Medicine or Law," would be interesting if it were original, instead of being older than the hills. It may be asked also whether the familiar anecdote would not have been more pleasing to the reader in a more fanciful form, instead of in this prosaic garb. The conceit of the plot does not harmonize with the author's treatment...
...Harvard is more afraid of Cornell than of Columbia as is apparent from their unconditional refusal to row with us. Harvard knows our superiority and with their usual policy at once refused to row. We are not puffed with conceit as a result but have our own opinions just the same about the New London races...
...should become discouraged because he does not see the value of his work. It has a place in the plan of God. If students could only realize that their own individuality is essential to the complete fulfillment of God's plan, and that His plan envelops all theirs, conceit and self-consciousness would no longer be characteristic of University life. Dr. Brooks closed his remarks with a plea for higher ideas...