Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That sympathy, however, we cannot extend to its refusal to sing at prayers. If intended as revenge, the action must, on second thought, appear petty and childish, and in whatever light we regard it, we cannot but think that it is based on an entirely false notion of the Person to whom hymns are addressed...
...Alma Mater? Does the fervency and success of our Chaplain's prayer suffer from the want of appreciation of the many? Are we the more likely to feel our own gladness by treasuring it in our hearts, or by recording it with a full heart in the person and lips of our class Chaplain...
There is another consideration in the person of the Chaplain. Many of us, most of us, feel a respect we should like to express for some substantial, steadfast character we have admired through college. We choose an Orator whose skill will express our acquirements to our friends and fellows. We choose a Chaplain to express our sentiments and freshness of heart. A wrong selection (as has once or twice occurred) does not dishonor the office, but the class. He stands as their prayer to heaven, - if it be a curse, they must bear it; if a blessing, they must receive...
...distinction between duty and pleasure, and considers happiness the result of the latter alone, which is very wise, if we recognize something higher and more to be desired than happiness in this narrow sense, but not so wise when we find that what the author means is that "a person who in a materialistic age is willing to renounce all pleasures but those derived from the possession of a good conscience and the contemplation of virtue had better retire to the wilds of Mount Athos or to the society of Mr. Ruskin...
...were simply chosen on the spur of the moment; and the second is open to the objection that the club might get into the hands of a clique, who, instead of forming a chess-club, might end by practically constituting a social club, in which a person's ability as a chess-player would be among the last grounds of his eligibility as a member. In this connection it would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made...