Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms. At times some peculiarly independent thinker decries reading as debilitating to the mind, and advocates a little more use of the brains. But these invectives are few and far between, for the growth of reading has become so universal that the habit of reading has become absolutely essential to a successful career. And it is safe to say that if this habit is not gained by college men during the years they spend at college they will never acquire...
When opportunity is offered, it must not be thrown away. Given leisure, what shall be done with it? Money is not valuable in itself; the necessity of earning a living is a great safeguard. It is easy to lose one's opportunity through dissipation. Far better is it to spend one's time in the pursuit of manly pastimes. But though play should make a part of every man's life, it should not make the whole of it. A third use of leisure is devotion to literary pursuits, without any result of consequence springing therefrom. Such a life gives...
...deserve as much prominence as railroading and engineering. With all our feelings of welcome for the lecture to night on "leisure," we regret most heartily that it was not appointed for an evening at least three weeks later. The end of a most valuable course of lectures has come far too soon...
...their ignorance, very likely to deem it merely a brutal pounding match. And, however unfortunate this condition of things may be, yet it must be acknowledged that in the present unperfect state of our civilization, the higher education of women has not yet in this regard been carried as far as that of men. So though as believers in the broadest culture for both sexes, we should like to have our sisters learn to take hearty enjoyment in seeing such a performance; still in deference to the narrow prejudices caused by their unhappily defective training, we should as gentlemen spare...
...stand for nothing. They represent reading in live questions and practical thinking upon them. But this is not all that is accomplished. Practice in expressing views, whether they are erroneous or well founded, is of great value. Our ability to say something on a political or social topic, counts far more in society than profound but unexpressed learning...