Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resulted in another. This for the reason that the essence of cooperation is cooperation, and it is difficult to see how cooperation is to be secured for one scheme, when it is denied to the other. "United we stand, divided we fall," would seem to be a necessary motto for the two representative schemes of cooperation at Harvard, and the result either way rests with the dubious factor of public spirit among her students. There has now come a time when the notorious question of "Harvard indifference" can receive a categorical answer, and the burden of the responsibility...
...least in the world; or, if any, of a most simple and taking kind. And if there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors of the Register show their good intentions and appreciation of the fit by adopting as their motto the classic phrase from Byron, "I won't philosophize and I will be read?" And yet, we take it, still in a measure we have inherited something of the style and frequent felicity of expression possessed by these predecessors of ours, and the traditional literary bent of Harvard...
...motto of Our Continent, "In that new world which is the old," from Tennyson's "Day Dream," is a good illustration of a quotation misquoted in an entirely different sense from the meaning of the expression in the original...
...another card, but his door was likewise impervious. "Crushed again" would have aptly described my feelings as I went back to my lodging. Here I had been already three days at work and was just as far from matriculating as ever. However, although Nil desperandum is not the motto on my coat-of-arms, I resolved to adopt it on this occasion...
...selecting, from what was outside, the best. Now the problem is to eradicate, from what is within, the worst. The results tend in the same direction; the processes are distinct. Any little peculiarities must be carefully guarded against. The more amiable they are, the more dangerous they are. Your motto must be 'upward and onward," even at the cost of every feeling of real kindness, courtesy, and friendship. These are only peculiarities and eccentricities. They must be brushed aside from your path with stern determination. Those who say you have no soul are envious. Do not mind them. Remember that...