Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...right in persistently pursuing a do-nothing policy. If students should adopt a permanent arrangement at Memorial, the Corporation owe it to them, in that case, to make clear that such arrangement is urged in order to make feasible a second hall and not simply for its own sake, leaving the second hall still only a remote possibility. The Corporation ought explicitly to state to the directors of Memorial that, if a satisfactory permanent method can be found, and if requisite funds can be made available, a second hall will be built at once. If either side declines...
...given is ordinarily not reserved for specified individuals; it is given freely to persons with whom the donors have no previous connection. In a word, scholarships are a result of an interest in the general welfare. They are investments of the community,-the sacrifice of one generation for the sake of a future generation...
...recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation...
...Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense...
...death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought art truth rather than religious truth. For them a Venus was as good as a Madonna. They were interested in art for art's sake, not for the sake of religion...