Word: possession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from any benefit in his instruction, but also from the difficulty which most persons find in collecting their ideas when distracted by the continual and irrelevant chattering of one who stands almost directly at their side. If they have a thorough knowledge of the question before them, very few possess sufficient power of abstraction to give, when thus disturbed, a clear and succinct answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them...
...than prudential maxims about how to shape one's "career" so as to get the greatest amount of comfort with the least amount of trouble? I think that every one must feel sometimes that certain high desires and beliefs are worth more to him than anything he possesses or can ever hope to possess in this world. And must we not acknowledge that these high desires lead up to something very like "the possession of a good conscience and the contemplation of virtue," which our author affects so greatly to despise? "Affects," I say, for he does not believe...
...Yard, and the comfortable window-seats and the pervading venerable aspect of the apartment made up, we thought, for all its deficiencies. And then, after a time, the room became so filled with curious old furniture, and pictures, and signs, and photographs, and what not, that it came to possess a certain cosey and comfortable air that I have perceived in few rooms here. I cannot say that No. 43 had to any great extent the appearance of a study during our Freshman year. How could it look like a cloister when its occupants were students in naught but name...
...from its foundation up to the present time, will form an introductory chapter. There will also be separate histories of each of the buildings, - telling when, by whom, or how they were founded, describing the changes they have undergone, and, in short, noticing all the interesting associations which they possess; and, moreover, there will be given biographical sketches of the persons in the work...
...successful life, and which leads him to place a barrier between himself and his associates, ought to be strenuously guarded against by all such, and he should endeavor, by a more friendly association with his friends, to call into action those hidden springs of feeling which all possess to a greater or less degree, needing only culture to form the strong ties of friendships which are as oases along the otherwise desert path of life...