Word: conceitedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Must it not be confessed that the system of college prizes is, on the whole, productive of bad results? It has little effect in stimulating the idle. It incites those who are already ambitious earnest workers to over-exertion. Success renders them conceited: failure often makes them bitter and discouraged...
Yet the most important thing is not what we study, but how. Greek can be studied here with admirable facilities; so can all the languages and all the sciences, and the best of all is that good as are the helps and high as are the standards, nobody has such...
At this time we find base-ball enthusiasm in all colleges at a high pitch. The Hamilton paper I have alluded to before, prints a lurid editorial on the subject: "Wake up, ballers! Make Hamilton shine this year. Make ball playing red hot! . . . . Our practice here don't amount to...
Yet it still remains to be seen whether the college will approve the marking system; for the present Mid-years are its first great and questionable test. And the verdict will be interesting in more ways than one. It will not only show one ideas of the true measure of...
He 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...