Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...
According to this categorization we are all snobs. There are, it is true, but few of the first type; the second type, however, is legion. Snobbery, after all, is mere inherency. Prejudice, the universal sin, is a species of snobbery. Excessive pride in a hobby--and who does not take pride in one--is another snobbery. Harvard is criticised by outsiders (who often know nothing about it) for being snobbish, and within its exclusive gates men call other men snobs. Irascible X accuses immaculate Y of being a snob and then snubs provincial Z who comes from another and smaller...
...halls for members of a Freshman interdormitory council." A man who goes out for some sport--a major sport, for instance--will get to know many fellows; he will meet others in class; he will have still other friends from his preparatory school days; but he has committed the sin of not living in a dormitory. The proposal speaks of "investing the governing power in a body which will be representative of the dormitories." Why not speak of "investing the governing power in a body which will be representative of the class...
...world, I e'en must leave thee." Professor Davison. Air, Bach Miss Curtis. Caprice, Guilmant Pastorale, Franck Professor Davison. Romance, Rachmaninoff Miss Curtis. Choral Prelude, "O man bewail thine awful sin," Bach Finale (First Symphony), Vierne Professor Davison...
...went to Nineveh and foretold the destruction of the city. His preaching was so powerful that to his astonishment the whole people immediately repented in sackcloth and ashes. The object of his mission was accomplished with miraculous speed; the destruction, which was to follow a persistence in sin, was avoided and did not take place; but having fore told evil, he was disappointed that it did not come. He was angry with himself and with God, and retired to brood in solitude over the failure of his prophecy. The moral, then, is that of the man who becomes so intent...