Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what impression Socrates made upon his people. He was no writer so all information about him must be obtained from such works of his disciples as the Memorabilia and Apology of Plato. For more than a generation Socrates was a familiar figure in Athens engaged in free and gracious teaching. There are two points in his instruction which must be considered; his subject matter and his manner. To understand Socrates' manner, he must be marked off from the so called Sophists. Until the fifth century BC. education was of a most ordinary character consisting of reading, writing, a little music...
...Game Two, the Crimson is a gracious host, playing the game by its guest's rules. The penalty box gets more visitors than the concession stand, but Harvard remembers how to skate and score in time...
...become very wealthy and had grown in experience and in wisdom. This incident from the Old Testament leads to the thought of the attributes of material and moral progress in the lives of Christians to-day. We cannot choose our environments at the beginning of our life. Gracious circumstances are given by God alone, but it is due to human activity and exertion that the growth of the body in material prosperity and of the soul in moral strength is made possible. Neither goodness nor wealth are of spontaneous development. With honorable success comes an honorable end. The change takes...
...custom is a gracious one and things of this nature are what tend to make the feeling between colleges one of gentlemanly and courteous rivalry and not one of bitter antagonism...
...emeritus professor of Harvard, make his influence felt among us? We are well aware that his time is already greatly occupied, but are we, students of this university, to have less claim on his leisure than the political clubs of Chicago? We trust that our appeal will find a gracious hearing, and that we may be able ere long to announce in our columns a course of lectures on English literature by Mr. Lowell...