Word: precept
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...admirable; but when the tenant is not in, it is wasted welcome. The turning of a key is not a difficult task, the carrying of the key is not a heavy burden either for memory or for pocket. Much difficulty can be avoided if students will follow the simple precept of locking doors and ground floor windows when they go out. Furthermore all suspicious individuals should be reported at once; and if any losses are discovered, no delay should be made in notifying police head quarters. Only by cooperation of all can the evil be eliminated...
...having lingered over the May issue of the Advocate, the though comes that it is genuine, full of good literary endeavor and free from affectation. To find the subject matter bounded by the good taste that begins with simplicity and ends with an observance of the precept of Horace...
...mind has received more and more attention from the educational experts in the past few years, and it is now generally admitted that the physical development of the student is an essential factor in the development of his brain. "A sound mind in a sound body" still remains a precept well worthy of note...
...going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken in defiance of the clear precept, "Love thine enemies----" Even his brother's failure to post in time a letter containing money for the mortgage leaves him with no sense of bitterness...
...respect of the cadets, and his consideration and constant good nature won their affection. By tact and good judgment he was able to be exacting and at the same time beloved. More important, perhaps, he presented to young men of an age when example counts quite as much as precept a conspicuous instance of what a soldier's life should be, a combination of clean living, clear thinking, and hard work that gave significance to the phrase "an officer and a gentleman...