Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...line today because their is growing a feeling among many, even cultivated people, that a university can be created without a history, that large funds and wise management may accomplish for a university in a few years all that centuries of wise management can do. That there is an element of truth in this, we all agree. That certain studies and scientific researches are not dependent upon historic surroundings and a rich atmosphere of culture is true. But if a university has for its work also the development of the whole man, growth in culture and the encouragement...
...natural aversion to this unnatural situation has in it no element of contempt; it is rather the respect felt for equals which makes it offensive to see them assuming duties which are universally recognized as belonging to inferiors. And again, it is respect for men as equals which compels reluctance to put them in a position where it would be hard for them to preserve to the full their own sense of equality. Contempt has no place in the protest against student waiters, nor can it be read into that protest by any but the over-sensitive...
...sensational tone which matches the popular taste; but the doings of the student are too quiet and unexciting to hold the interest of the reading public. Let him enter upon the field of competition, so that college may be pitted against college in scholarly contest, and the resulting element of excitement will win for him the notice of the press, perhaps to a large degree; but so long as he confines himself to quiet, individual work, no matter of what importance, he will receive but slight mention...
Salvation is thought by some to be an escape from hell, and by others to be a state of pleasurable emotion; but its real significance is in changing the permanent element in a man, which we call character. Thus salvation is a transfer from the world of inward confusion to the world of peace and serenity. It is wrought by human decision and by grace through faith...
...will benefit the government both in - (1) Administration and in - (2) Elections: Dr. M. P. Jacobi, 165-197. - (a) It brings in new abilities. - (b) It brings in a conservative element, viz., that of the home. - (c) It purifies politics. - (1) Women pay more attention to morals. - (2) Have higher sense of honor. - (3) Not led by impulse, e.g., their overthrow of Populists in Kansas. - (d) Accords with general movement of suffrage, viz., greater numbers brings broader point of view...