Word: swayings
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...become usual to form great generalisations about the origin of art, and the danger of following them in scientific research is that the student will leave the really important things that are at his door unexamined, while he follows out a theory that fletters his vanity and gives unbounded sway to his imagination and to his ingenuity. The safest method therefore is to base our observations and draw our conclusions from the actual historical facts at our disposal...
...discouraged. The upperclassmen really think a great deal of them, and would show it if they dared. But they are afraid to oppose the college feeling. They have to be cold to their nearest friends even, or else the well-known spirit of indifference, which has held sway so long, will be compelled to seek a kingdom in some other empire less favored than that of Cambridge...
...youth's first experience at Harvard under the present system, makes him feel as though, in some unaccountable way, he has grown fifteen or twenty years older during the few months elapsed since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature...
...great Civil War, when the changes, which have since made Harvard a university, were beginning. Through change and storm she has remained steadfast. During her life one college paper and another has risen, flourished, and died; but she alone, among all untouched, has held her sway. Our best wish is that she may be worthy to stand as the oldest paper of "Fair Harvard," our oldest seat of learning. For if the Advocate ever fairly and worthily sets forth our best thought, she, like Harvard, shall reckon her age, not by scores of years, but by centuries...
...cricket game between the Harvard and Boston teams, played Wednesday, only four of the regular team played. The game was arranged at the last moment, and was played on very poor grounds, where luck had undue sway...