Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Protestant Reformation marked a change. Men began to think and reason. A division of the sects followed and every one was permitted to have a belief of his own, suited to his own needs. If he lived up to it, he fulfilled all the requirements of a religion. The same thing is true at the present day. One should put his belief to the test at times, to see if it satisfies his ideas. Religious truth is unlike all other truths. A mathematical truth is proved by a set of fixed rules. Legal or historical truths are governed only...
...fallacy to think that football men are bruisers. They are chosen for their pluck, energy and courage, and these requisites are more often found in the more intellectual and gentlemanly students than among the brutal ones. Gill and Cowan, who were perhaps the most famous tackles who ever played football, were both ministers, and four out of the last six captains at Yale have been in good standing in the University and prominent...
...natural for one to think that the chief obstacle to the representation of these old authors on our stage is the indecency with which they are so often charged. There is, however, another difficulty. The plays were essentially plays of manners and it is almost impossible to find actors today capable of feeling and appreciating the parts. The attempts of some of our better actors and actresses to play these parts have been dreary failures...
...example, untruthful; for, if there is one thing that Harvard University stands for, it is perfect truthfulness in every individual member and as a whole. Many things, however, the student feels that his fellows will regard leniently and accordingly he is willing to go wrong. He would never think of it if he knew that by so doing he would lose all reputation and position in college. Thus a tremendous power is in the hands of college men,- namely, the direction of college sentiment. This is a power that, to some measure, is in the hands of every individual...
...learns something from books but more from men; if he disciplines himself to the proper degree and, on the other hand, gives himself sufficient amusement to cultivate the light, buoyant side of his nature, he cannot but come out with the ability to meet men well, to think and to talk clearly, in short, to 'fit in' to any set of conditions-the quality of adaptability...