Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...both in its usefulness and influence to its work and the students who pursue kindred work in their studies. But the work of a society of which the scope is so extensive as that of a philosophical society, is of interest to all who pretend to any degree of sober thought. The lecture which was given last year under the auspices of the Philosophical Club, proved this most conclusively by the intense interest which it aroused in the subject discussed. A lecture on the present state of Harvard undergraduate thought, for example, even if not feasible, would...
...direct falsehood. In order to correct this state of public opinion, every student should carefully consider cribbing first, as it effects himself, and secondly, in its application to college interests. Self respect is essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber respect himself, and can be expect, that on sober thought, his friends and the college public in general will respect him? Excuse cribbing as much as you can, and the fact that an excuse is needed, shows that all is not right...
...clearly and conscientiously on the topic; no stand has been taken without being thoroughly discussed. Accordingly, we believe that this petition will have the support of the more thoughtful men throughout the college. We furthermore hope that the Overseers and Corporation will receive it as a most sincere and sober presentation of under-graduate opinion...
...greater credit to the editors. The process of evolution here has been going on so steadily within the past few years, that the time does not seem far distant when we shall see at Harvard those papers, occupying distinct fields, the CRIMSON, a daily, the "Monthly, for our sober, steadfast thought, and a "Lampoon-Advocate" for our lighter moments...
...accordingly diabolical. Yet the fact is that the pessimist simply believes that more misery than happiness exists in the world. The optimist holds the opposite. Everyone grants that an optimist who writes pessimistically should be condemned for insincerity. But few seem to realize that if a man's most sober and honest thought is pessimistic, as it often is, he would do wrong to write optimistically. Both argue that you must shape your course according to the weightiest facts of existence; one holds that misery is the great fact of life; the other, that happiness is. Each is in duty...