Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have had double the time to go into...
...alone, rests the influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell, not in some distant and far off mysterious land. Such writings, as long as there is room for improvement in human nature, as long as crime and ignorance exist, cannot help doing good...
...reap many times what we sow. A man may commit a crime in one night, which will take him his life and part of eternity to atone for. Abstinence from strong drink earnestly urged. Nine-tenths of our criminals are made by liquor, as well from the upper ranks of society as from the slums. Ignorance of what we are doing can make no difference as to the harvest. Disrespect for religious things can only work ruin in our own characters. No nation has prospered that has cast off the worship...
...Times calls him, certainly exposes himself to the accusation of great folly, when he proposes to bring a "criminal suit for $50,000 against the professors in charge of the chemical laboratory at Harvard University for injuries received in the laboratory by his son." To undertake to make a crime out of an accident is certainly not wisdom. Dr. Brooks should remember that this experiment, in which his son was so unfortunate, has been tried for years by large classes without any serious disaster; he should remember, too, that warning was given that the experiment was dangerous, and that being...
...maturity of Harvard men are strong evidences that the vast majority of students would utterly scorn to make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable only so far as it is genuine." That this practice, however, which is both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion...