Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
...Freshmen were given considerable pair oar work this morning. Their work in the shell this afternoon was unsatisfactory. The time was bad and the men showed a tendency to clip at the full reach, which resulted in a great waste of power. This morning there were a few Yale freshmen visitors, while in the afternoon several of the 'varsity men made a call...
...Every morning now we have mounted regimental drill. Six hundred horses galloping in column of fours is a fine wave of power. The dust lifts up so thick it is like a fog, and you can barely see the next man ahead. Half-blinded, wet with sweat, and the horses on both sides rubbing against your legs, you go tearing, galloping on. Then suddenly through the white wall of dust you see the haunches of the horses ahead sink down and a hand shoot upward with the fingers spread apart. There is a quick jam, a creaking and rubbing...
...emphasize his previous assertion that the negative were debating facts, not theories. The whole argument of the affirmative on the Canadian question, he said, was based on the assertion that there is no systematic investigation. We say that there is such an investigation and that the law gives the power to strengthen it whenever it is deemed necessary...
...that of posting the names of men handing in written work not their own, will meet with the general approval of the undergraduates. From the first, student opinion has been dead against posting, because (as we brought out editorially over a year ago) it is felt that while the power of the Faculty to summarily eject a man for dishonesty is a just one, it can hardly be said to be within the prerogative of any college administrative body to inflict a punishment which might affect a man's future prospects...