Word: violent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play only. The individual work of the old 'varsity men was in many cases far below what they did last year, while on the Yale team every man played an excellent game and the stars did unusually brilliant work. The game was entirely free from slugging or any unnecessarily violent play...
...change is unnecessary. - (a) Defects of present system not inherent. - (b) Less violent means the better remedy. - (c) Congressional legislation has on the whole been effective Snow's Cabinet Govt...
...foreign substance in the mind and becomes a pearl only by dint of that fretting which proves its alienate, and which compels us to coat it with the substance of our own life and thought and so to assimilate it with ourselves. Wordsworth said that "Poetry was violent emotion remembered in tranquility," that is, when it was no longer the motive but the passive material of thought; and acquirement, then, first becomes knowledge when it is not much a property of memory as a quality of the intellect, making a part of the judgment rather than serving to rectify...
...English brothers, it is from the American people that Howells has received the severest opposition in his efforts to carry out this new method. It was in Howells's criticism, the setting forth of his own principles and in his own legitimate practice that he encountered the most violent displeasure of Americans...
...from heaven seemed to call upon him to renounce his present mode of life and devote himself to the service of God. He returned to his native town, eager to serve in the cause to which God had summoned him. Inspite of the taunts of old friends and the violent remonstrance of his father he devoted himself enthusiastically to the care of the poor and of the sick and to utter self-abnegation. He drew followers to himself and in the course of time, obtained permission from Rome to form an order. Since his time, the Franciscans have been among...