Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there was a time when I prided myself upon my knowledge of Chemistry, and gave every spare moment to the science. "Sed tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Excuse the quotation; only the dead languages can express my feelings. Before I came to Harvard I studied a couple of years in a Western college, and there I grew interested in Chemistry. My teacher was a man of many subjects, who might be classed as a Professor Intelligentiae Generalis. He taught Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, Botany, Geology, and Greek, besides occasionally some other branches when either of the other two professors...
...Heaven would spare the lovely youth...
...probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual number who come back with the purpose to stand high, work hard, and get all the possible good from the College; others who are simply content to get through, with the fraction of a per cent to spare; others, again, who have no aim at all, judging the future by the past. During the next year, it is safe to say, the usual number will work, the usual number lie idle, the usual number attain distinction, the usual number be ruthlessly suspended. Prayers and recitations will be cut, summonses...
...unceasing ministry of kindness. Those who knew him best knew not that he had a fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect and warm affection of all within the circle of his acquaintance and the sphere of his influence. The community can ill spare so conspicuous an example of conscientious fidelity in so many and so various trusts; and with his successive classes of pupils and his numerous friends he leaves a memory which will be a lifelong inspiration and incentive in every worthy endeavor and honorable career...
...doubt have found that the American is the most one-sided being on earth. If he is a man of business, he is a man of business and nothing more; his whole time, as well as his whole mind, is filled with his means of livelihood, and he cannot spare a moment for anything not connected with money-making. If he is a man of leisure, and, as rarely happens, has nothing to do, he consistently does, thinks, and accomplishes absolutely nothing. The idea of combining business and pleasure, or leisure and some rational occupation, never occurs...