Word: possession
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this last subject the ears of the college world have of late been assailed by many discordant voices, all of them earnest, most of them well-informed, and speaking in every case with a tone of confidence in the possession of the true solution. One theory, often broached under different forms, and more or less logically held, is that the main object of the college should be to prepare for the study of a definite profession, or the practice of a distinct occupation; and that the subjects pursued should, for the most part, be such as will furnish the knowledge...
...blue-book the statement that he has neither given nor received assistance, would make it, to those hypersensitive should who feel humiliated by proctors, equally offensive. As Mr. Macgowan himself admits, it has not wholly eliminated cheating in those institutions which have tried it. Whatever fancied advantages it may possess seem to me more than outweighed by the fact that it places the perplexing duties of detection and discipline upon the students themselves. This question should not be confused, as it sometimes is, with that of honesty in written work done outside of the class room. Here we have...
Because the quintessential stamp, which his works possess by virtue of the curiously rhetorical style and of the magic symbolism of sound, cannot be in any way represented in the English language, as was shown by Professor Kuehnemann, who read two highly impressive passages from "Zarathustra," it is absolutely necessary to be able to approach these ideas in their original medium of language...
...King then outlined a critical study of the "doubly attested" sayings as given by Burkitt, which he declared to possess tremendous power because of their very simplicity. In these sayings the element of love is dominant as the supreme power of all. Here also we find the qualities noticed in Schmiedel's work: the earnest attitude toward life and the belief in a personal religion. Christ believed in the marvellous growth of good from humble beginnings. Our life should be one of sacrifice. In the utterance, "For he that hath to him shall be given; and he that hath...
...which could not be confuted, and the wealth of examples which his well-furnished mind could bring to the support of his positions, sometimes drove his opponents almost rabid in their replies to him. This courage also saved him from the littleness of "answering back," and enabled him to possess his own soul in peace...