Word: direction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large a part laziness may have in ordinary opposition to prayers, it would be a mistake to suppose that there is not a genuine, conscientious disapproval of them. This disapproval is founded on the widespread feeling that religious practices should be made matters for individual taste and feeling to direct; that everyone has a right to follow his own bent in such matters. So widespread is this feeling, that it underlies the arguments of those who defend compulsory prayers as well as of those who oppose them. No one thinks of assigning as a reason for making attendance at prayers...
...several years we have gotten much pleasure and instruction from lectures in Political Economy, History, and Philosophy, given under the auspices of various societies. The Philosophical and Historical Clubs have thus been a direct help, not only to their individual members, but to the college at large. Yet no society has yet offered a course of talks or lectures on one very interesting topic, English Literature. It is acknowledged that, to put it mildly, we have not too many electives in the subject. Accordingly, a few lectures in Sever would not only supplement the regular college work, but they would...
...reservoir, and by this means, some of the houses in Cambridge which stand on very high ground and otherwise could not be provided with water, are kept fully supplied with it. It is a great pity that the Halls in the college yard do not derive any direct benefit from this splendid system of water supply, which cannot be surpassed, except in a few of the largest cities in this country...
...beyond a careful perusal of the daily newspapers would be required, as it might become to be regarded as a "snap" if it could be taken as a regular course. It would, however, furnish an excellent basis for theses and forensic work, and in that way would have a direct bearing on a man's regular college work...
...increasing greatness. As such, let us consider it for a moment. Of course we have differentiations of the poetic sense. We have the love ditty, the laboriously elaborated scholastic exercise, the philosophical sonnet, the frothy nothing, and the pessimistic snarl. A great portion of the writing is naturally the direct outcome of affectation, much of the rest from an ambition to shine as a literary light. But here and there at rare intervals we catch a glimmer, transient, it is true, of a pure, new thought, which will not be crowded out, and will in its utterance prove...