Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Carlyle said he thought he should have been a wiser man, and certainly a godlier one, if he had followed his father's steps and left Latin and Greek to the fools that wanted them. - Amherst Student...
...writer seems utterly unable to perceive what is not put directly before his eyes. That a general can contain a particular truth does not seem to have yet entered his head. "Abstinence in the economic sense is never thought of by Christ." And why? "Because it is plain that self sacrifice was considered admirable only in relation to a particular ideal, viz.: "Love of God and one's neighbor." Is then economic abstinence contrary to the love of your neighbor? Does the love of your neighbor preclude the love of yourself? If so, for what have Butler and Hartley...
...reflection. It is for this purpose that these vesper services have been undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares and perplexities of our engrossing daily life. Like those stations of the Cross on a "Calvary Hill" in Roman Catholic Austria, these services stand for some solemn thought, and give strength for each successive ascent until at last the summit is reached...
...should there be an exception in the case of rowing? The Yale freshmen do not feel that they are asking anything unreasonable. In view of all this, we cannot but think that the Harvard freshmen will decide this matter with all the fairness which characterizes the sober second thought of intelligent college...
...Oxford-Cambridge boat race is attracting far less attention than usual. Neither crew is thought remarkable, but experts expect the Oxfords to win, as they are the more powerful crew, though both are about equal in point of style. - Yale News...