Word: contagion
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...that contempt should be placed in the same category and on the same level with these evils. The sin of the scorner is, however, much more insidious, deceitful and benumbing than that of the ungodly man. To know the good and then to despise it, to yield to the contagion of irreverence, is the most hopeless of all sins. The choir sang anthems by Perceval and Barnby...
...college life is so vigorous as to spend nearly a million dollars a year, and still feel wretchedly pinched in every department by poverty. And the mental life is so vigorous that scholars feel, all the time, mortally ashamed of doing so little. Life works by certain divine contagion. Facilities, opportunities, rules, standards, traditions-all are good; but life itself is better, and a working faculty will make a working school. That is the central fact of student life at Harvard; this is a working school. Space forbids any attempt to show here the courses of study, or to insert...
...experience, I have seen countless young men, that could not be either driven or led into giving faithful study to Latin or Greek, Turn with eager desire and with persevering zeal to the study of English. I have seen the study of English spread like a contagion through all the grades of undergraduate life, till even the idlest and the feeblest were moved to labor for an object that even the dullest could appreciate as desirable...
...furthermore be said that, although the hospital is situated on the college campus, there is not the slightest danger of the contagion spreading by reason of that. The building is thoroughly disinfected after it has been occupied, and is then one of the best domiciles, as far as sanitary arrangements are concerned, of the college. As a matter of fact, the building has been twice occupied as a home. Not long after it was built a student from Canada, who had just married, was given permission to use the hospital as a home, and did so use it. The other...
...Woman's Journal thinks that in "the present epidemic of college rowdyism," only the co-educational institutions escape the contagion. Co-education did not save Cornell...