Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this moment, when the narrow Philistinism, which has long had things its own way in England, is showing its natural fruits, and we are beginning to feel ashamed and uneasy, and alarmed at it; now, when we are becoming aware that we have sacrificed to Philistinism culture, and insight, and dignity, and acceptance, and weight among the nations, and hold on events that...
...than one-half the students in Memorial occupy more than two-thirds of the hall. The smaller section is daily over-crowded; the larger section is never completely occupied. Frequently a score or so of students-and occasionally even more-are standing in wait for seats at the same moment when, across a purely imaginary line, there are more than a hundred vacant chairs...
...fair proportion of the one thousand millionaires in our land, and by legislators as well as by those who have set their hearts and minds upon the progress of true science in our great and beloved republic in this time of unprecedented educational opportunity, I have not for a moment a shadow of doubt...
...confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon...
...told that we are doing our duty but what would a home be when all did their duty and nothing more, it would be decorus, severe and just, but there would be no grace or graciousness. In the life of each one of us comes a moment when we must decide between the duty which looks for obligations and grace which looks for the opportunities of life. At such a time let us each one strive for that noble, sweeter power which lies in grace...