Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concerned, however, numbers pure and simple are no criterion of a class's merit, and this it will be well for Ninety-three to remember. The opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that you will abuse them both. With all your forced maturity and self reliance your point of view will be radically changed as you advance, and you will often wonder in your senior year at your freshman self-assertion and wisdom...
...church is coming more and more to be that strong character cannot be developed without contact with men, contact which cannot always be with good men. And so our Christian men live in the world. But living in the world does not necessarily imply that we should rashly thrust ourselves into temptation, and the question that confronts us is, How far is a man to put himself in the way of temptation, and to what degree is he called upon to carry on his intercourse with all sorts and conditions of men? Professor Hart's discussion of this question...
...jealous individuals. The past history of Harvard is filled with successes. Something more than insults is needed to convince us that the tide has turned and that our hope for the future is baseless. In the consciousness of noble aims and ambitions Harvard University may well thrust aside with little attention, the petty revilers of its good name...
...regular gymnasium work have lately received an addition to their ranks. Johns Hopkins University has gone so far as to prescribe steady gymnasium work as a requisite for obtaining a degree. A sound body is certainly to be desired in a student, but we consider it inadvisable to thrust a knowledge of the flying rings upon a man to whom such instruction is distasteful. Better far to use one's persuasive powers on recalcitrant gymnasts...
...Matthew Arnold Impressed Me," we have a glowing and well-written account of the effect of the English poet's work on a plastic mind. The personality of the author is thrust for ward rather more than propriety or good taste would allow in an article of this kind. Without wishing to be cynical, I find considerable presumption in its spirit. The talents of the writer give promise for a very fair future, but let him delay the publication of his autobiography until the world may fairly be assumed to be more anxious...