Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which will be enough to live on even in London. Of course it is necessary to take lodgings in some quiet place, perhaps not very near the city, and have your meals at the chop houses and small restaurants. It is very easy to confine one's self to a fixed amount, and to get into the way of bearing slight inconveniences in the way of travelling third class when necessary to use the railway, for this plan is based on experiences of a walking tour, and when coming to a village or city at night, in going...
...said, he said well. But the peculiar value of his writings for young men is his intense earnestness, his sincerity. He may well be called the apostle of sincerity. With Carlyle was carried to the grave the patriarch of a new age, - an age of activity, not of morbid self-consciousness; of sincerity, not of ceremony. He renounced the faith which only babbles after what another said, which repeats without reflection; he first taught men to look into the great Book for themselves, and see whether there be any voice in nature to justify faith. The result was that Carlyle...
...very marked. One can see this by taking the trouble to look over the back volumes of the Advocate and Crimson preserved in the Library. So, too, colleges have their own air of personality. And this characteristic is nowhere more evident than at Yale. The Yale papers carry a self-assertive air, that is apt at times to degenerate into braggadocio, as in the recent matter of the football championship. Of the Record and the Courant, the former is the more gentlemanly; but the News is after all our favorite, - a model which other colleges dailies would do well...
...life, from self set free...
...their assumed remissness, - one writer even venturing to brand them as "criminals." This sort of talk, no matter how absurdly unjust, is not pleasant to those against whom it is uttered, for no one likes to be told that he ought to be a jail-bird, even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless. Hence I beg leave to ask such collegians at Cambridge as think it wise to have the historic name of "Harvard" publicly championed upon the water by her youngest and greenest representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London...