Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remains for the undergraduates, one and all, to fall into line, in order that perfect harmony may reign. If the students would look at it in this light, namely, that, after all, they do not know quite as much on the subject of rowing as they think they do, and decidedly not as much as Mr. Watson, our coach; if they look at it in this light, perhaps they can accept his plans, his ideas and his methods in a manner becoming an undergraduate body and true Harvard...
...this spirit of Puritanism, the spirit of simplicity, love of duty, and confidence in God, fast dying out among us? We sometimes congratulate ourselves that we live in better times than the Puritans, and we think that their rugged dutiful lives were much harder than was necessary. We live in luxury, sometimes we sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others...
...eyes of the University and from popular opinion and enthusiasm; that our crew is no longer a University organization, in the success of which we all feel a personal interest. It is instead a secret society - a clique. In spite, however, of such a possible construction of appearances, we think it only right and just to submit to the better judgment of the coach. We must know that all Mr. Watson's secrecy is with a purpose - a purpose which we do not know, but which we may implicitly trust is for the best interests of the 'varsity crew...
...ignorant, and if Christ pitied and taught the ignorance of the people two thousand years ago, how would He feel in the terrible ignorance of New York? You ask, "Have they not public schools that will give them at least a saving conception of what an education is?" You think that the best schools are where they are most needed; but instead of this, as soon as the unlearned multitude comes to a neighborhood, the churches and schools forsake it. In the parts of New York where most is needed least is given...
...colleges. Mere knowledge amounts to nothing beside the possession of true life. So what we are looking for in college is the truth of God, that having found it we may know Him and live in Him the eternal life. How dignified it makes life seem to think that our life is really in God, that He is living in us. It should make life seem to us a very holy thing and make every one try to live worthily that he may live...