Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present habit will not easily be thrown off at once; yet, in the face of the testimony that leading members of the University will welcome this more intimate relation with students, the fitness that the first advance should come from the students is clearly to be seen...
...with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does one persuade himself that till he knows everything, he knows nothing,-that after twenty years of criticism one is still a mere weigher and gauger:-skilled only to judge what he may chance to have been in the habit of inspecting at his own little provincial customhouse. And as one gets older he is apt to allow more for personal idiosyncrasy, and to have less certainly that the truth he has reached is not a one-sided one, and that there are not fifty others equally important, and (perhaps...
...terrified at the prospect of having a spirit bound by iron chains and tortured with material fire? No one, surely, but we do look forward to having a pure and spotless heart, to being crowned by royalty of character, and we do fear the iron chains of habit and the torture of remorse. What now does this allegory in the Revelation mean? These four beings, rather than beasts, are personifications of four qualities necessary to the acceptable service of God. First is the lion standing for courage. To serve God the most necessary of all things is courage. From...
...petty abuses of college life none gives greater evidence of cowardice and ill-breeding than the habit of leaving the class room as soon as the monitor has taken the attendance. Yet no abuse has been or is more prevalent than this. We take the matter up now, because we believe that the initiative in the reform of an evil for which the students alone are to blame, should be taken by the students...
...which is to be given tonight. Mr. Copeland has shown that he appreciates what seems to us one of the worst features of college life and of nineteenth century life in general, namely, the neglect of reading. Not only is the art of reading aloud obsolescent, but the habit of reading even to onesself seems in danger of being left behind in the rush and complexity of our modern life. In college we have so many things to attend to that we cannot spare time to read for the sake of reading; when we leave college, we are more than...