Word: latent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...situation calls for an expression of great energy on the part of the freshmen. If all the men who have baseball ability-even if it is only latent ability-do not try for the nine, then the chances for its success are materially diminished at the start. Just at this time the prospect of a winning team would be highly encouraging, and, on the other hand, the prospect of a disgracefully weak team is particularly disheartening. Ninety-seven has it in her power to do the University a great good or a great harm...
...given men an object for training and so to bring a large number of men into a way of getting good, healthful exercise. Mr. Lathrop is a tireless trainer, who can be relied upon to keep men in the best possible condition and to develop to the utmost whatever latent powers one may have for making a successful track athlete...
...sharing the employer gives added fidelity to his employed as his part of the capital, but certainly this idea is not feasible in every business. Cooperation would carry the matter farther, would fuse the functions of employer and employed, and thus utilize the higher business abilities that are now latent in the common people. In his next lecture, Professor Peabody will consider the philosophy of the movement...
...sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...
...James Martineau, the well-known teacher and writer, has a wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...