Word: lively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sums named is large for a poor man. It may be believed that even after restraint and wisdom are used, Harvard remains the college of the rich. There is much in our circumstances to make it so. An excellent education is unquestionably a costly thing, and to live where many men wish to live calls for a good deal of money. We have it is true, Memorial Hall, which lessens our expense for food, but it costs $150 a year to board here. Our tuition bill each year is $150. The University owns 450 rooms, but not one-third...
...officers of the Union take pains to appoint subjects of live interest for the debates and the society has never lacked enthusiastic supporters. The meetings last year were well attended and the interest shown by outsiders was unusual...
...upon the merits of his work, it is therefore to the interest of the paper and to that of its readers, that a large number of applicants should present their work so that the best talent may be secured. Communications and an occasional editorial written on a topic of live interest and front page articles on athletics or other subjects of interest, will be ample tests of a man's abilities. The freedom and openness of the competition, far from deterring men from writing ought to spur them on to do their best work. The magaging editor of the CRIMSON...
...life. During his college course he usually looks mainly at the intellectual side. So a man in college naturally doubts. But there are other things in life than reason. Theology and religion are very different. Theology solves the problems, but religion is for one's life, whether a man live well or ill. Then give up the insolvable problems, no one can solve them. And if you have doubts, do not try to settle them yourself, turn to the authorities. If a man meets a difficulty he should try to solve it with the aid of the proper authorities...
...following a person, not a thing, and it opens up to a man the only possibilities of the entire development of what is in him. A man may know a great deal about Christianity without knowing anything of Christ. Such men are religious men, but not Christians-they live for themselves, instead of living for Christ. No man is a Christian who lives for himself. There is a practical difficulty in being beset by temptation; but there is no passion in man's nature that cannot be overcome. The principle in dealing with sin is not prohibition, but substitution...