Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...respect at least, the failure to have the class races on Saturday will prove beneficial, and the old maxim, "Its an ill wind," etc., holds true, even in this instance. Hitherto, the referee has had to use a large tugboat from which to superintend the start and to follow the crews down the course. This has proved inconvenient in more ways than one, the crews have been unable to get very near the referee, and on such a large boat as a steam tug the officer in question cannot easily move around among the boats, but must lie moored...
...advice of the King of Bavaria to a young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...
...stake. So long as they are able, even though in an indifferent condition of body, to maintain their superiority over rival aspirants, they are satisfied. With them it is a matter of comparison between their plaving and that of the substitutes who are ambitious to supersede them. Their maxim is, 'play better than the first substitute, and that is enough.' If that can be done without severe and faithful training, so much the more of a snap for them. While we think that probably most of the irregularities are committed thoughtlessly and without consideration of the consequence, we are certain...
...trouble between the Princetonian and the faculty of Princeton college brings to mind a question in which all of us must be more or less interested-whether a college paper ought to have complete freedom to express its opinions. Every one has heard from his infancy the trite old maxim that the "freedom of the press is a necessary factor in a free country," until we have come to regard the press as the very impersonation of liberty. It is taken as a self-evident fact. But when as students we turn to the college papers, and ask ourselves...
...Royce first summed up the results of the previous lecture and illustrated them more fully, closing these illustrations by a statement of what is suggested as the ultimate moral principle, which is in the form of a maxim: Act as thou wouldst be minded to act if all the consequences of thy act, for all conscious beings, in so far as such consequences can be foreseen, were to be realized for thy self at the next moment. That is to say, that morality is defined as a perfectly impersonal view of all conscious life and as action based upon such...