Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supplanted by the antagonistic error, namely, that if we would cultivate and develop the soul, we must oppress and dishonor the tabernacle in which it dwells. To consider the dilapidation of the casket as indispensable to the increase of the brilliancy of the gem, is an unnatural paradox, to say the least. As a consequence of this strange logic the body was disparaged, vilified, cursed, macerated and mutilated by a set of theologians, scholastic and mystical, who had wedded a religion divorced from science. The Olympic games were suppressed by an imperial decree. Manly exercises, the festivals of the seasons...
...individual's honor needing no guarantee. But the only place where it would be practically wise to ask for no guarantee would be a place in which individuals who had no honor would be sure of disgrace. Our college is I fear, not exactly such a place. To say the least, it is too large and incoherent. A new variety of club would, it seems to me, be a more promising field than the college at large for planting crops of this new sort. Club opinion is one of the greatest forces in the world, a force that...
...truth. The ideal journal's statements of fact will never be colored by prejudice, passion, bombast or humor (so called,) but will be rigorously exact, and will be expressed in simple, clear, compact and agreeable English. Its comments on current events will be animated by a steady purpose to say the right thing in the right way at the right moment, and will be characterized by accurate and independent thought, sound sense, good English and good manners. It will never treat opponents with discourtesy, or friends with flattery, and will never sacrifice principle to party, to sentiment, to self-interest...
...these advantages, and for those who intend to be lawyers or public men, an ability to speak before an audience is a qualification absolutely indispensable to success. We would urge upon such men the necessity of a realization of their own opportunities. Go around to the next debate and say something. It will never be a source of regret...
...say to the corporation and faculty, 'some things are sacred and must not be touched. Increase your improvements, but no matter how weighty the consideration for the change spare the college fence.' It is connected with associations that are tender and reminiscences that are rich beyond the power of eloquence or poetry to portray. The seat upon the college fence was our first title of man-hood. From it we viewed for the first time that beatific vision of the New Haven student, the New Haven girl; and whenever we return, no matter how long have been the intervening years...