Word: perish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This survey serves to bring out the large proportion of his teaching which deals with the simplest principles of ethics. These could not possibly perish because of their irresistible vitality. Even the man who can get no religion out of the teaching of Jesus can yet find a priceless treasure in his ethical teachings...
...agitator that dies for the hopeless cause, or the soldier that falls by the shot-torn flag, never thinks of loyalty. It is his mission in life, and he does not question it. If football is merely played for the loyalty it inspires--spring the trap and let it perish." The article supporting Professor Royce's view lacks the worst faults of the opposing statement, but is also inclined to excess, both in language and argument...
...Dawson, we all must have had; obedience to them means happiness, disobedience ruin. One great note in the Bible is obedience. Christ was "obedient unto death." We must reserve ourselves for the best, and when the vision comes, obey. It is not for want of light that men perish, but for failure to use what light they have...
...Athletic Committee was formed primarily to manage and control our athletics, and secondly to make such improvements in grounds and equipment as were necessary. To throw the minor sports, which have never been self-supporting, on their own resources; to let them work out their own salvation or perish in order that a few more dollars may be saved every year for buildings and other improvements on Soldiers Field seems change of policy unwarranted by the circumstances...
...causes of these variations are due to economic conditions, constitutional vices, and to the habits and traditions of the people. Traditions of free governments are slow to form and quick to perish, which renders it all the more necessary to make and maintain such traditions, essential as they are. A party on coming into power ought to have a definite doctrine and should strive for the ultimate welfare of the country. There has been a decline in the qualities of the legislatures in all governments during the last forty years. This, to some extent, has been due to the great...