Word: lived
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live toplcs, or if this be impossible, and the old, time worn subjects be again raked up, the treatment of these subjects must be of a more interesting nature than usually falls to the lot of commencement parts. The absence of Prof. Hill, who has heretofore practically taken entire charge of commencement exercises...
...commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live topics, or if this be impossible, and the old, time worn subjects be again raked up, the treatment of these subjects must be of a more interesting nature than usually falls to the lot of commencement parts. The absence of Prof. Hill, who has heretofore practically taken entire charge of commencement exercises...
...when he was a boy, and he has an edition of this work in his library; it is preserved on account of its antiquity. He has never heard of the Christ, or, at least, he regards him as below his notice. He is a Hedonist. His aim is to live at all odds a happy life. If he sees misery in any form he becomes queasy, and he therefore regards it his duty to shun all poverty and to refuse to render any aid to the poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that...
...learned the fallacy of his early reasoning. The object of life is pleasure and self-improvement. Money is but a means. The money getter makes it and end. Therefore he, the student, will not go into business, but travel, perhaps write a little, develop naturally as a flower, and live the only life possible for a rational graduate...
...Young men, you can make of yourselves what you will; but a thing once done, is done forever. Live, then, that you may have nothing to look back upon, when you are as old as I am, with regret. Your memories will not fail you; and if you err now, you will have never to be forgotten stains on your lives. You are all authors; each of you at the end of each day has written a page; but what you write can never be erased. Write you books clean, then; live that your memories...