Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their daily work without thought of future reward; the other, composed of those whose minds are filled with selfish and sordid purposes. People of the first class are successful simply because they have interest in the work itself. That interest is not purchased by bribery, is not caused by fear of consequences; but is present because God is working out his purposes through these earnest men and women. The man who works not with God belongs to the second class; the little capacity that he possesses is taken from him because he has no part in the advancement...
...them, and a minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window to the howling crowd below. This ended the fight. The Meds won the victory, and often as the sophomore passes the Medical hall you may see him looking up, with a tearful glance of mingled fear and sorrow, to the windows of the dissecting-room, which contains the pride of his sophomoric existence.- Pennsylvanian...
...audience that had assembled to hear one of the most remarkable addresses that has been heard for a long while at Harvard. Professor Norton said that the United States presents a spectacle never before seen in the history of the world-of sixty million people at peace and without fear. He spoke of the unparalleled growth in wealth and material resources which has marked this century of American life. To get wealth, much that is equally valuable and far more noble has been sacrificed. Fame, renown and honor have become weaker motives than they formerly were, and men's energies...
...very well to talk about the individual's honor needing no guarantee. But the only place where it would be practically wise to ask for no guarantee would be a place in which individuals who had no honor would be sure of disgrace. Our college is I fear, not exactly such a place. To say the least, it is too large and incoherent. A new variety of club would, it seems to me, be a more promising field than the college at large for planting crops of this new sort. Club opinion is one of the greatest forces...
...despises such puerility. Yet that opinion is ineffective for inaugurating any change. Why? Because it is really too lazy to take the trouble. We do not believe that there is any lack of inner independence in the matter. It is pure indifference combined with a transcendent devotion to a fear of appearing ridiculous, or expressing any idea which is not the merest commonplace...