Word: content
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...being in an eminently practical country the first conspicuous representative of the literary life. Mr. Higginson's estimate of Longfellow's literary position is particularly well considered. "While Longfellow will never be read for the profoundest stirring," he says, "he will always be read for invigoration, for comfort, for content...
...Clarkson allowed two hits, struck out 13 men, and was especially effective when Amherst had men on bases. In the field the team was steady, but the batting showed no improvement. The game emphasized the team's most serious fault. The men lacked aggressiveness at the bat and were content to let one or two strikes pass before offering at the ball; this attitude resulting in nine strike-outs. Fortunately four of the six hits made were timely and enabled Harvard to make three runs against a clean fielding team...
...then brought out the fact that lax enforcement of law lies at the root of the great evil of black-mail and that when the law says one thing and the policy of the administration another, the patrolman on his beat may collect blood money to his heart's content. For when an executive assumes discretionary powers with regard to the enforcement of law, this discretion must in the last analysis be exercised by the police force. He brought out the fact that we must choose a strict enforcement of the law with an honest police force...
With the former part of your education, we laymen may well be content, trusting to your own zeal for work and to the powers of this chosen band of teachers...
...words of St. Paul, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." St. Paul bids men forget and cast away old sins, and, not content with mere resistance of temptation, press forward from height to height to the goal of ultimate perfection...