Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...times the best scholars and writers have striven to inculcate in men a love of learning for its own sake, or, rather, for the sake of its educational effect, and in our own time so strong has been the desire for a thorough cultivation and development of all the intellectual powers, with no regard to professional or pecuniary objects, that a new word to express it, or at least an old one with increased meaning, has come into use, In direct contrast to such a spirit is the system of rewards and punishments which Harvard is fast shaking...
...make friends of these, and pass a pleasant existence. But surrounded by a crowd, as here, ready to join in adding to the comfort and pleasure of all their friends, it is an unnecessary freak, and only the outcropping of an intense egotism and vanity, adopted for the sake of attaining a notoriety, and adds nothing to him in the estimation of his classmates. The dignity of this self-sought reserve is one-sided, and viewed from another point is but a poor show, revealing only moroseness and a general appearance of ill-will...
...College Chronicle has for a motto the sentiment esto cere perennius, which, for the sake of posterity, we trust relates to the institution of which it is the organ and not to the publication itself, unless the latter undergoes a speedy and thorough reform. Its tone is puerile and weak throughout, and is rendered doubly so by the enormous society-titles of "Cliosophic" and "Philorhetorian," to which it gives prominent positions in its columns...
...mind without having his ideas shocked by the sketches of some misnamed "artist," who attempts to depict scenes of which he seems not to have the faintest conception. To illustrate a book to help the understanding is a useful field for the pencil, but to illustrate for the sake or helping the imagination, or, what is worse, for the mere sake of advertising, is in most cases a miserable failure. I say in most cases, because a few novelists - Dickens, for example - have been so happy as to find artists, like Cruikshank, who can really help instead of hinder...
...Iowa at the beginning of the season appointed an agent who, it is said, has saved, in purchases, $2,000,000 to the farmers of that State. He was under heavy bonds, of $50,000, to make it sure that he would not betray the trust: for the sake of science too much care cannot be taken upon this point, since the confidence of the small farmers in their leaders would be annihilated and the experiment fail disgracefully, if there should be very soon a great embezzlement. For the sale of products the preparations have been immense, - elevators built...