Word: want
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to the carelessness with which material of this kind is always furnished, we would not want to lay too much stress upon them, but all the facts together, even though not entire proof, are indication that the popular notion of the relative amount of money spent by Harvard and Yale students is incorrect. There is strong reason to surmise that the average expenditure at Yale is greater than that at Harvard...
...place where these men naturally want to practice is in the Theatre. On Monday and Tuesday afternoons of this week, two or three of the contestants, with private instructors of elocution, secured the hall and held it by locking the door for three consecutive hours. Is this not manifestly unjust to the remaining seven or eight...
...rowing spirit would indicate. While it is unquestionably true, as I have already written, that the English nation, and of course the English university men, are more generally inclined towards sport than are we, yet the paucity in numbers of our rowing men may not be traced to the want of athletic inclination in our universities...
Fifty years ago, he said, the object of every Christian church was to find out how the early church was managed and then to base on this its own organization. But now everything is changed. No church would want to change its forms of service and government and accommodate itself to the primitive methods of the early Christians which would very naturally be now utterly impracticable. That this is true was conclusively shown about twelve years ago when a manuscript was found showing how the church was managed in the first century. When the discovery was announced every sect, Baptist...
order and proportion. Ben Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of being understood,- a remark which time has fully justified, and which I never could help sorrowfully applying to a writer of our own day, Mr. Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate...