Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles in its way; yet with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers only in the intellect of which it is the expression. And as the stream, choked by what it has collected, is stemmed and blocked, until...
...them. At first '88 seems to have the advantage, for she has rushed up against a fence which creaks and groans and finally gives way, sending head over heels several Juniors who had taken a position there to watch the fight. '87 and '88 are thrown into a promiscuous heap, from which they gradually extricate themselves, and once more rush at each other. This time it is decisive. The Sophomores rush the Freshmen off the sidewalk and retain possession of it. Now a number of single combats takes place in almost every one of which the Sophomores gain the victory...
...realize human life? As a mass of single separate experiences, as a heap of happiness or misery, to be estimated by addition? No; for in this fashion life would not be rationally realized at all. To determine to treat the whole of life as real, implies for a rational being the determination to treat it as having organic unity, or at all events to try to bring it into such unity-to exemplify. When we estimate our own lives, or any part of them, we do so by treating the experiences in question...
...noticeable fact that two of the colleges who got left near the bottom of the heap in baseball last spring are in high hopes of winning the championship this year. [Yale News...
...would trust alone in his room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled in an inglorious heap before Professor-then plain Mr.-Sophocles' door. The usual consequences followed, and on awaking next morning the student had a painful if vague impression of having had an interview with the proctor. Gathering himself together he went down to see what might be effected by an apology. He explained...