Word: possession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...does not ask surrender of the best of life, but calls to the higher life when men would choose the lower. He asks for souls, to make them richer and nobler than they could even dream of by themselves, and He wishes to strengthen and beautify, not merely to possess. Men are slow to realize that this sacrifice which seems so hard is infinitely the greatest blessing, that it means the exchange of a life of care and misery for one of highest happiness...
...because it was carried to such extremes by some, science nevertheless will always possess immense power over men's minds for its orderliness, depth, beauty, and above all for its authority. That chemical changes and mathematical equalities will always remain the same is, to the scientist indisputable. That this authority should be introduced into the moral and intellectual world is the wish of broad-minded men of the present day. As organic development has been achieved in the exact sciences so are its beneficial effects needed in the less tangible divisions. An organism of culture, in other words...
...student to vote. Any citizen who wishes to cast his ballot must register (registration for this year closed a week ago Saturday), and must have paid some state or county tax, assessed upon him in any part of the commonwealth within two years of election day. He must also possess a domicil in the city or town where he wishes to vote. Whether students posses such a domicil in Cambridge or not is a question which has been little understood, though the law seems perfectly plain on this subject. On the 15th of March, 1843, the House of Representatives submitted...
...very attractive form. The Portfolio is intended to be a kind of register of Harvard life for the current year, and in many ways it is so. It is certainly a valuable souvenir of the year, and seniors especially should find it a very desirable book to possess. There is so much in it of general interest, however, that very many undergraduates as well as seniors will doubtless own copies...
Thackery says in one of his novels that "a woman crossed in her literary vanity is as dangerous as a man in love," and even if the authors of these charming daily and fortnightly themes have any literary vanity (which, mind, we do not say they possess), we have no occasion to cross them. On the contrary, we have nothing but praise for such dainty bits of character delineation as "My Village," "An Original Darkey," "Sancta Simplicitas," "My First Psychological Experience," "A Side Light,"- for such bright and original descriptions as "Youth," "In the Crowd," "A Face," "Broken Butterfly...