Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reading aloud obsolescent, but the habit of reading even to onesself seems in danger of being left behind in the rush and complexity of our modern life. In college we have so many things to attend to that we cannot spare time to read for the sake of reading; when we leave college, we are more than likely to fall into the line of American gold-hunters, and in our search, to forget that the culture of which we have tasted will soon be blotted out unless we foster it. Yet we students are not half so busy...
THERE must be two Freshman elevens out at Norton's today, at 3 o'clock sharp. Come out for the sake of your class and give the team decent practise...
...interested in the Union who do not teach classes can do considerable good for it by going to these lectures and then after the meeting talking to the men and making friends of them. The lectures are invariably interesting and are well worth going to for their own sake. Professor Palmer will lecture next Wednesday and the week after, the editor of the Youth's Companion...
...often misled and misinformed on just these matters. Others cannot know and appreciate the greatness of the University till we students know and appreciate it ourselves. From these words we cannot expect a sudden exodus to the museums nor a crowding of the college chapel simply for the sake of information; if we have uttered a truth, the truth will take care of itself...
...Home Rule is desirable for England's sake. Nineteenth Cent. XXI, 165. (1) Home Rule would lessen the work of Parliament. (2) It would lessen the changes of administration. (3) It would remove foreign reproaches. (4) It would lessen Ireland's hatred. (b) Home Rule is desirable for Ireland's sake. (1) It would give greter opportunity for needful legislation. (2) An Irish legislature would be better informed on Irish needs, and more sympathetic in the treatment of them. (3) Law would be more respected. (4) Responsibility would sober the Irish...