Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more right to give a place to a congressman in return for a vote than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity, but the prosperity is always artificial as in the case of England when Walpole was premier...
...that his crudeness of form is a positive virtue; for thereby he expresses with greater freedom the great acts and underlying principles of daily life. Whitman, says Burroughs, is superior to Emerson, in that the latter's intellect starves out his sympathies and emotions. Again, Whitman rises above the sphere of literary culture and conventional form which confines Tennyson and Browning. He belongs rather with Homer, Job, and Isaiah, for his poetry is more than literature; it is humanity itself...
...appoint a Committee of Seniors to make all the necessary plans for the services. This year, however, as we have said before, it would be exceedingly appropriate for the Memorial Society to take the matter in hand. The proper observance of Memorial Day clearly comes directly within the sphere of the Society. The Memorial exercises in Sanders Theatre have every year been exceedingly impressive and inspring, and it would be a pity to have them given up. We hope that the Memorial Society will immediately take some steps in the matter...
...their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed to us then as it seems to us now that intercollegiate debate demands too great maturity and experience on the part of the participants to be undertaken by freshmen with thorough success. The Freshman Debating Club has a distinct sphere within the University in training men for the great debates with Yale and Princeton, and it should confine itself to this task, which would certainly give it enough to occupy all its time...
...great difficulty to be contended with lies in the fact that many students do not regard the Reform as within the sphere of their responsibility. But is it not the duty, as well as for the interest of every citizen, in or out of college, to insist upon an honest and efficient public service, free from the control of party patronage and the political boss? And should not educated Harvard men, whose watchword is "Truth" be among the first to forward the cause of the honest and intelligent administration of public office...