Word: stinted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...teaching Latin and Greek. Although from his natural conservatism he had taken little interest in the reform by which the sphere of his power as a teacher was thus enlarged, he availed himself to the utmost of his new opportunities and opened his rich store of erudition without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest subject interesting by his skilful and original way of present-it. To his originality many scholars widely scattered through...
...spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three weeks thinking men have talked of nothing else, and there has been no stint of outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand to go on and shut up the press, the pulpit, the market-place and the clubs it can hardly be worth his while to begin with muzzling this University. The plea that the government, right or wrong, must be supported...
...take this opportunity, now that the term has drawn almost to a close, to thank the graduates who have been acting all this spring as coaches to the university and freshman crews. They have given their time and services without stint in a difficult and fatiguing task. They have devoted themselves untiringly to the interests of Harvard, sacrificing their private pleasure to the welfare of the university. College men must not look on thoughtlessly, as many are apt to do, and consider it all a matter of course. They must remember the debt of gratitude due to those less conspicuous...
...earnest and successful student, a mathematician of promise, and a teacher of singular ability. He exerted a strong influence for good over his pupils, many of whom became his personal friends. He was cheerful, obliging, always ready to sacrifice himself for others, and to give time and labor without stint to any good cause; a devoted son, an active and public-spirited citizen, a man of high purpose, of enthusiasm, energy, and courage...