Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been more than 50 out of 2,000 to 2,500. These two difficulties taken together are serious. Thirty men by combining could have controlled any one of those annual meetings and elected the officers except those who held over. If the plan proposed is accepted all danger of sudden and ill considered change is removed and the responsibility of members and of officers is defined...
...sudden acquisition of almost perfect freedom in every particular offers great opportunities, although there may be involved the risk of sin. It is said that virtue is possible only when the risk of vice or sin goes with it, but it must be remembered that experience of sin is an entirely different matter from the risk...
...guiding influences which have surrounded the boy are gone, and the man is at liberty to think and do as he chooses. It is not unnatural that he is tempted to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and to dabble in sin in the sudden reaction from enforced virtue. The absence of responsibility seems the essence of freedom. Yet freedom is in truth quite different--it is complete responsibility for self-government. The boy acted under orders; the free man acts for himself, and is completely and alone responsible for his motives and aims...
...Turn in the Way," by C. R. Saunders '01, is an interesting analysis of the train of thought of the college man who shrinks at the sudden realization that the world's work is before him. The sketch is artistically clothed with a whispering summer night but it is unsatisfying, because it is issueless...
...eight o'clock this evening, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read from "Peg Woffington." The programme includes the episodes of Woffington's visit to Triplet's lodging, of the portrait, and of Mrs. Vane's sudden return when Vane is entertaining the players from Covent Garden...