Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...main fine of his pursuit to wander off into devious ways, however alluring. But while engrossment in a chosen task does reclude the possibility of comprehensive self-development and activity, it is nevertheless true that if life is to be kept wholesome and happy, the sense of a wide horizon must not be lost. And it is just that sense of the wholeness of life including all the fragmentary individual interests and pursuits which is of the essence of religion. And hence it is that religion brings salvation from narrowness. In these days of high specialization religion has become indispensable...
...other. Yet it seems but natural that the stranger--a smuggler he happened to be--who comes to dwell with them should find himself at home in their tiny circle, and that one who had never been beyond the hills and to whom the world beyond the horizon was mystery, should long to be out and away. Miss Wilkins would probably have allowed the girl to be a sufficient excuse to make the boy settle contentedly into the monotonous existence of caring for the light-houses. Mr. Rideout has her drive him away, knowing that when he had made...
...little. I do not mean to say that the atmosphere here is uncongenial to Western men, but it is likely to be so at the beginning, due to the misunderstanding pointed out above. In short, then, outside of the academic advantages which he gets here he gets a broader horizon and a broader sense of judgment. It would take a great many more Western men than could possibly come here to so change the atmosphere that they would not feel the difference from their former surroundings...
...moral awakening, that lends the greatest importance to the coming campaign. It is an opportunity for the Political Club to become an active power for good; but if neglected, it will shake our confidence in the ability of undergraduate organizations to deal ably with the larger questions beyond the horizon of college life...
Scribner's--"In the Louisiana Canebrakes," by T. Roosevelt '80; "A Run to the Horizon," by F. Palmer '00; "The Dead Du Gueselin," by E. Sutton '85; "In the Doctor's Office," by R. Herrick...