Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although Wendell Phillips had the misfortune of outliving the main pursuit of his life, yet even after the abolition of slavery, he maintained his position as reformer, firmly believing in the rights of women, in the prohibition movement and the abolition of capital punishment...
Comparatively few of the new men are aware of the benefits which are offered by the departmental libraries of the University. These libraries have been established with the design of providing students with liberal and convenient facilities for the pursuit of their studies on special lines...
Activity is play when one does a thing for himself; but when he is striving for a certain victory then it is work. A pursuit often begins as a play but ends as work. A man who has more money then he can use still keeps at his business. It is not money that this man loves it is the game. Another man works to gain a living and to gain and hold a position in society which is a burden to many...
...late the Classical Library has been frequented by a small and select number of men who have chosen it as the most eligible place for the audible pursuit of their studies. They arrive soon after breakfast, and use the room as a stamping ground on which to disport themselves for the rest of the day. In consequence, the ordinary books of reference are monopolized, wordy discussions are the regular thing, and the patience of peaceful readers is put to a severe strain. Of course most of the offenders are lower classmen; and until they are old enough to learn that...
This provision is to be regarded in the nature of a privilege, earned by unusual excellence in the composition work of the earlier years, and can in no case be claimed as a right, or apply to any pursuit in or out of college except actual work upon the said college journals satisfactorily performed...