Word: vast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today, however the demand usually comes in a different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast amount of work needing to be done in the world which is and probably always will be unremunerative and which on that account offers an attractive opportunity to young men of wealth. There are few joys in life to be compared with sustained interest in some in- tellectual pursuit...
...that religion brings salvation from narrowness. In these days of high specialization religion has become indispensable to the worker whether with hands or brain just because it does mean that sense of a wide horizon which redeems one from littleness and pettiness by keeping alive the sense of vast possibilities, while it also braces him for his chosen task. And so for their own sake and for the sake of the society in which they aim to be most highly useful members, college graduates ought to ally themselves with the church. But if their possessions of whatever sort they...
Despite the plastic and fluvid condition of the earth's surface and the aquacious essence prevalent in the air yesterday the CRIMSON and the Lampoon valiantly matched their skill at the national game. The scene was one of delicate picturesqueness,--the contestants decked out in gala attire, and the vast concourse of onlookers displaying ostentatiously their brilliant outing costumes. The umpire was at times whimsical and at the third inning called the game on account of dampness. But nothing daunted the two teams and they played on amid cataract and slough. At the end of the game the special delegates...
...risk of seeming trivial we desire to call attention to a peculiar manner in which certain ambitious students are endeavoring to secure a generous return on their investment for membership in the Union. These thrifty individuals are consuming vast quantities of writing paper stamped with the Union crest, in writing theses and taking notes. Possibly these offenders are acting through ignorance, but we are quite sure that their own note paper would never be used for such a purpose. Is the slight saving in stationers' bills sufficient compensation for the loss of self-respect which can but accompany such...
...Harvard University enlisted in the forming regiments for the front. Some went as commissioned officers, some as privates; some were in the infantry, others in the cavalry, others wore sewed to the sleeve of their shirts the red cross of the hospital corps; everywhere throughout the vast extent of armies, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, or left behind to sweat and toil in weariness, men we had known and men we had heard of, men placed in command of companies, or in the third relief of the guard, were doing what ought to be done...