Word: grave
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...
...athletes under Captain Bremer (and what we say of them will apply equally well to the crew and baseball men) have this year a grave responsibility. Success to them means more than it has meant before. It means not the mere maintenance of a position already won, but the restoration to Harvard of her old-time prominence. All lovers of the college long to see Harvard again in the lead in athletics as in intellectual pursuits. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and for Harvard well must always mean better than any other...
...matter of British encroachment on Venezuelan territory; and Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed it appear there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern." I think this shows President Cleveland's present action is not hasty, and I think the standing and recognized judgment of his counsellors is such as to preclude the possibility of its being fairly termed ill-advised...
After such a grave oversight as this last has been, may we not hope that the Spring conference of volunteer workers will receive deserving treatment at the hands of some competent reporter...
Best general references: Judge Cooley, Grave Obstacles to Hawaiian Annexation, Forum, XV, 389 to 406 (Je. 1893); A. B. Hart, Practical Essays on American Government, p. 98; Cleveland's Writings and Speeches, p. 35; Cleveland's Message, Public Opinion, XVI, 238 and 261 (Dec. 7 and 14, 1893); Journal of Political Economy, I, 280 (Mch. 1893); The Hawaiian Failure, Nation, LVIII, 96 (Feb. 8, 1894); The True Monroe Doctrine, Nation, XXXIV, 9 (Jan. 5, 1882); Papers relating to annexation of Hawaii; House report on foreign relations...