Word: profound
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe that another fact underlies and explains both statements. It is that Yale, or rather athletic Yale, keeps in closer touch with the preparatory schools than does Harvard. The average school boy has a profound admiration for greatness, of which, in his mind, distinction at college is one of the highest manifestations. It is to this well-known school boy characteristic that Yale appeals, by occasionally sending her prominent men to the schools where they were fitted, to give advice on athletic matters, perhaps to disclose a new play in football, or a good trick in baseball, - in a word...
...lower sense it is also practically useful. For it is also a study of style. We win from it the secret of expression, we learn how shallow artifice is and how wearisome it becomes, we learn also how profound is Art, and how it is able to eternize the thought, the fancy, the feeling of some man who has been dust for centuries...
Resolved, That the members of the chapter express their most profound grief for the loss of their late brothers who by their loyalty and fraternal feeling rendered themselves dear to all; be it further...
Finally, in reference to any move that may be made in the matter, we express our profound conviction that any action, to be satisfactory in the long run, must be cooperative. If either the students in power or the Corporation insist upon looking at the matter only from their own point of view, the whole question might as well be given up in despair. The Corporation have strength in their position; they can hardly be expected to erect a second hall, if, that done, the problem of a third hall will at once take the place of the old problem...
...wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle...