Word: reasoning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make no attempt to reply to that article, because the writer, against whom it was particularly directed, has already answered it; and, indeed, the statement might seem to contain fit replies in themselves. My purpose is only to confess myself a believer in sentiment, and to give a few reasons for clinging to something which has at least the approval of some former times, and which, I had thought, was beginning to prevail in our own. Indeed, it is for this reason that I have never before obtruded upon you my opinions in regard to this subject...
...with so much care? Must I light my fire with the paper which contains a record of my one College office? May I not feel sentiment? Nay, may I not grow sentimental (utilitarians may sneer if they choose) over my one photograph and the little bundles of dried flowers? Reason would say they were given out of compassion only, and utility would bid me throw them away; but sentiment steps in and makes that to be a choicest possession to me, which, to the utilitarian, is but dust and ashes. No; these are things which I cannot give up. They...
...liable to be abused to our serious hurt; while we think few students will not sooner or later agree with us that the prospective and consequent increase in the number of examinations will be more of a nuisance than the compulsory attendance upon recitations, and afford them little reason for self-felicitation. If any one is to be benefited by this change, it is the instructors, who will be impelled to make their exercises more interesting, instructive, and necessary than some of them are at present. This may cost them some effort, but that effort, we assure them, will...
...have been set by those who supply us with the necessaries of life. Now at last we have them on the hip; and, although the number of those who gain by this new method of retribution is quite small, nevertheless, as they are a credit to the College by reason of their shrewdness, we who have suffered do not grudge them the rewards of their labors...
...illustration of how and by whom we are governed. A small and unprincipled clique of politicians determines that such and such buildings and trees must be destroyed. The ostensible reason is that they are antiquated and interfere with the public convenience. The real reason, that a lot of speculators want to make money...