Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Here we are on difficult ground, but student thought is not opposed to religion. It is true that we do not have revivals; nor do we turn our Mott Haven team into a Salvation guard. But where is the sensible, rational person who will claim that external observances prove inward convictions? What right has any one to prefer upon mere hear-say the gravest accusations that intimate knowledge can justify? We have probably, in full abundance, all the vices of other young men, but what justice is there in stopping there in denying us per se the virtues of other...
...better man if he have a college education ? Can he stand higher, not only in a superficial, but in a deeply made, sincere estimation ? Will he find more in life, and, finding more, appreciate and enjoy it better ? Will not only his practical outward life be assisted but his inward life, which includes his thoughts, purposes, and desires, be likewise benefitted, elevated, ennobled...
...sensible and the cranky, those whose aim is mental and moral and those whose aim is physical excellence, the bad and false and the good and sincere, are all commingled in the different college classes. And they but form a world in miniature, differing not at all in its inward nature form the real and large world; so that to be among them is only to be schooled for the wider association that must come later. For the character of college students can differ very little, if at all, and to see and know what men are and what they...
Forty men came up from New York on the two inward trains on Sunday...
...five, yesterday afternoon, Memorial was filled with students, fortifying themselves against the labors of the evening. About six, the rallying cries of the various classes began to echo in the square, and in a short time the inward running cars were crowded with students in the uniforms of their respective classes...