Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...even the most dishonest man and show him the littleness of cheating under such conditions. Though every college has, and will continue to have, its class of cheaters, the sense of honor of the vast majority of undergraduates is stronger than is commonly supposed; and if the honest element in college was only more active in denouncing the dishonest element - even if they are all friends and classmates - the standard of honor would be materially raised. The outcome of this action at Princeton will, therefore, be of considerable interest...
...first number on the program was Beethovens Symphony No. 8 in F. sometimes called the "little" symphony. Beethoven was in a quiet Austrian town when he composed it, in one of the dreariest periods of his life. Yet the Symphony contains more of the light and lively element than any of the other eight. The first movement has very little complexity of theme and is comparatively simple in detail. The second movement is the finest of the four though the end is surprising and perhaps disappointing. The minuet movement is certainly disappointing, Berlioz says of it, "somewhat ordinary." The finale...
...pleasure, but who can say how much it is one's duty to do this or that? The difference between truth and falsehood is immeasurable; one can't take an intermediate stand. A mother's love is limitless; it gives all and lasts forever. Was there not a divine element in the death of Sydney Carleton, and though but fiction, what a lesson it should teach us! Should we not in our lives include divine elements? Emerson well phrased it in the following aphorisom: "Don't leave the sky out of your landscape," During the service the choir sang...
...last number of Harper's Weekly, Casper Whitney discusses at length the recent action of Yale in regard to undergraduates on 'varsity teams. Although expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits...
...again the fact that no subscription is too small to be a worthy part of the fund. The main point is that the subscriptions may be general and spontaneous. The beauty of such a fund is that it is not forced, it is not a contribution which has an element of duty in it. No one ought to contribute to this fund who is not moved to do so by his own feeling for Mr. Bolles. That the fund may be of this free, spontaneous nature, we do not urge men to subscribe to it. The opportunity for subscribing must...