Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Society for Political Education, of which the central branch is in New York, is increasing its sphere of work and bids fair to be successful. Any one can become an active member by paying fifty cents a year, and by promising to read certain books. Harvard students who desire membership can obtain full information from the officers of the Finance Club...
...parliamentary procedure, about which so much was said on Thursday evening, can be of little value to most of us. All else that was claimed for the legislative branch can legitimately be secured in the Union as it is; and it would have been extremely imprudent to compromise its sphere of usefulness by trying an experiment of little value if successful...
...this existence, so intimately acquainted with the bustling, every-day life, and yet virtually dead to it, - is not this existence a hard, a pitiful one? Certainly hard, and pitiful, too. Who knows but that It has aspirations for some active, ardent sphere? Who knows but that It bravely struggles against a feeling that will come up, of a lot that is unjust? Of an ugliness, - no, not an ugliness, - a homeliness that is unfair? And are there not vain yearnings, useless regrets? Who can say? But is there not a pathos in this being so willingly unselfish, so mutely...
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...doubt there are some who think that taking an informal vote for President is a departure from the sphere of the student to that of the politician, and others who regard it as only time thrown away. Both opinions seem erroneous, and arise from the same cause, namely, failure to look at the case in the proper light. It should not be forgotten that a representative government is such only so long as the whole people are represented, the intelligent and good as well as the ignorant and bad, and that, as a small force is not unfrequently...