Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well that such a society exists in these Philistine days of classical crusades, and it is well that such a club finds room to breathe. The hurry and rush of life in this case has not proved dominant. A humane and gentlemanly interest in the classics may be growing rarer each year, but we trust that the Classical Club will still be able, despite this fact, to maintain its influence and energy...
...college presidents are a much rarer class of men than is commonly supposed. There are now sixteen colleges in the country that are without presidents, and yet almost every day one reads that a new institution has been founded by some millionaire, who wishes in some way to perpetuate his fame and influence among educated men. The Stanford University, with its endowment of $3,500,000, will soon be a competitor for still another president, and there is no knowing how many more of these figureheads or financial agents may be required before the end of the year. The truth...
...spectacle - the world tending to degradation. The history of the world is a record of degradations and deliverances. The world has fallen and there have come great heroes, agents of the Creator, to raise it again. The hope of the world has been in the rarer souls, whether in literature, art, science, philosophy, or religion; men who, by the force of their own convictions, have stirred all mankind. Such men were Homer, Thales, Galileo and Watt. A score of names sums up a whole history. Material civilization, wealth, commerce are of no value to the world without righteousness. Not civilization...