Word: outward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sense, if a man means well he will do well. A man interested in athletics shows it in his bearing and conversation. Similarly, if Christ is the centre of a man's thought he naturally grows into a life of righteousness and self-sacrifice, and shows it in his outward life...
...conduct of Harvard men in the Revolution and in the Civil War is sufficient answer for the college man of the past. For the present, until some great crisis like the Civil War arises, there can be no decisive answer to the charges against our practical loyalty. But outward enthusiastic demonstration must be taken as the partial expression at least of an inward feeling; and there has been no lack of outward expression of interest in politics this fall...
...attributed to any of them. This disinterestedness is essential to their heroic quality. The world has long since determined the limits of its occasional respect for mercenary soldiers. It admires in such only the faithful fulfillment of an immoral contract. The friends we commemorate here had in view no outward rewards near or remote...
...there has been any trait to distinguish the Harvard students from their fellows in other colleges, it has been their prevailing regard for gentlemanly conduct,- their almost universal courtesy. We have been charged with snobbishness and indifference, but even our enemies have conceded to us a general respect for outward decorum, and abhorrence of boyish and "Kiddish" conduct. During the present year many things have happened which seem to show that we are in danger of losing our former high reputation. Such acts as the painting of the Fogg Museum, and the explosions at the lecture last Wednesday evening, would...
...things may be said to result from mental or spiritual training. First the individual receives personal benefit and, furthermore, his progress is a power, spreading outward, overcoming obstacles and affecting the lives of others...