Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wondered young George Jervaile. one of Eliphalet's men, did the old man sit always alone, drumming on the table? Why had he given him, Jervaile, $3,000 to go ashore on a certain southern isle with a loaded pistol and report what he saw? There was only an empty hut on that island, Jervaile told Eliphalet when he came back...
...Then with a folly as incredible as that of the Vatican itself, the Methodist ministers, whose game was perfectly simple because the Pope had played it for them, and who had nothing to do but sit quiet, promptly issued an address of exultation which can only he called scurrilous, and with equal promptness I canceled the arrangements I had made for seeing them...
...according to an article by Mr. George W. Alger in the April Atlantic Monthly, is responsible for most of the present lawlessness in the United States, and unless turned toward a cultural ideal, will be the destroyer of democracy. "Except for a relatively small group," he says, "our souls sit on the bleachers and watch a game played no longer...
Although Mr. Alger's point on the danger of untrained leisure is very well taken, he makes two mistakes. The small group who do not sit on the bleachers is not so small as he thinks, and it is growing by leaps and bounds. Neither is the five-hour day, of any thing approaching it, an accomplished fact as yet. Let Mr. Alger count, if he can, the number of new golf courses and tennis courts for workmen as well as employers, let him find out from any art institute the amazing number of courses in drawing offered within...
...college, determine to work for nothing higher. Extra-curriculum distinction, with all its empty pride, false hopes, and insignificant rewards, claims the undergraduate's attention while his books remain closed on his desk. So restless do men become in their covetousness for extra-curriculum fame, that they cannot sit down and concentrate, except, perhaps, the night before an examination, when they will "knock out"" their "gentleman's C." But it is not a "gentleman's C:" it is a "loafer's C." a "small-minded man's C," a " 'great' man's C." Either studies, or fame in undergraduate activities...