Word: fear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...adequate navy would lessen the likelihood of war.- (a) The expense and cruelty of war would be appreciated.- (b) Foreign nations would be inspired with-(1) fear and-(2) respect...
...intimidation was the only known method of restraining those who prove unable to restrain themselves. Now, however, the purpose of punishmen is more justly to inculcate self-control, the rule of moral force. With this object inview, of calming stubbornness, and appealing to prisoners through hope rather than fear, the Elmira reformatory system has been introduced and bids fair to become a success, so far as may be expected of any remedy for the disease of crime. At Elmira every effort is made to find the weak points of each prisoner and to strengthen him by striet discipline and training...
...European entanglements; is there a danger that "sovereignty" may lead to protectorates, and those to annexations, until our republic becomes unmanageable? These are some of the questions which suddenly confront us. Can there be anything more creditable to Harvard men than to think and speak on these matters without fear or favor? Is it not plain that nothing can more impede a rational conclusion, or more lower our dignity in our own eyes, than to approach such questions in a feverish heat, or to let professions of patriotism or savage praise of war frighten us away from a deliberate search...
...debating in the past has never been large and for this reason they can not be given too much credit for the magnificent list of victories which they have won for Harvard. If they are given the support this year which they deserve there is no reason to fear that the record will not be kept...
...central character of the piece is Argan, a middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...