Word: restless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...remained for the rush has been absolutely done away with in recent years by the presence of persistent and vicious outsiders who monopolized a large share of the proceedings. For those men in 1912 who have not yet become acquainted with our ways of conducting affairs, and for certain restless elements in the Sophomore class, who can present not even a plea of ignorance, let it be said that the first Monday of College has ceased to be any different from any other Monday and that any attempts at disturbance of any kind are in direct opposition to the general...
...divided into two classes: first, those who are restless until they have referred every experience, and every bit of knowledge, to certain first principles; and, next, those who take life more classically, not because they lack first principles, but because they are more interested in the sweep and variety, even in the exceptions and caprice, than in the rigid formulation of life. Mr. Berenson belongs to the former class, and it is wonderful that a mind so acutely intellectual as his should choose for its special province the Fine Arts--the domain, that is, where Beauty and not Knowledge...
...Princeton, its effect upon Harvard schedules will be out of all proportion to that upon the athletic calendars of our rivals. In other words, if Harvard's schedules are cut down we will be placed at another disadvantage, similar to the one resulting from the long period of restless changing of coaches that has accompanied an effort to maintain a policy (if such it may be called) that is incompatible with those of our competitors. The new football committee, appointed by Captain Burr, is a move toward permanence in the branch of sport that needs it most, and just...
Both of these ways of religion are real, but today we turn to the latter, the one of progress and power in answer to the wholesome natural desire of many an eager, restless, hesitating, youthful life. The story of the higher education is the passage from the compulsion of the schoolroom to the liberty of the University. The story of life is similar. You do the shut-in task and it opens into the larger opportunity, you face the limited duty and the larger duty discloses itself just beyond. But what is the way of life that opens thus from...
...will. As a result, the men are not obliged to choose their acquaintances from local circles and are not confined to any one set of habits and pursuits; they acquire an independence of plan and circumstance that comes to be one of their leading traits. Professor Royce traces this restless, individualistic spirit in a short sketch of the state history...