Word: weight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advocate making such opinions our only guide in this, we certainly do, however, give great weight to them in our reading from day to day. When the one volume we especially desire is not in the library, - less hypothetical than its presence there, - and we stand in doubt before those drawers of titles, how often and naturally we base our choice on the remembrance of some chance conversation on books and authors! While such opinions, expressed in the carelessness of conversation or aired on the enthusiastic heights of an excited argument, are found to influence us so perceptibly, why should...
Ought the certificates of sickness signed by those students who are of age to have any more weight than the certificates of those who are not so old? Ought one class of students to be excused from church at their own request, while another class is not? If a line must be drawn somewhere, then extend the privilege to every student. It is absurd to maintain that this week one is incompetent to judge of his moral welfare, but the next week competent to do so. One student is, as a general rule, no better qualified to decide upon such...
...important mission of our newspapers and magazines is to bring before the great body of the people the best ideas known concerning pressing practical questions. The editors themselves rarely have time for much research and reflection, but they are eager to get the opinions of men of acknowledged weight. What the country needs is the presence of a large class of thoughtful and able advisers, who, like Mr. Woolsey (lately President of Yale College, "our foremost rival in good works") shall raise the tone of the public press on questions of "morals and politics, law and government." "The rudiments...
...must admit that these advantages, allowing them the greatest weight, prove no more than that it would be a kind and fair thing to help the unstudious to a little knowledge that they perhaps would not otherwise get; and to put the studious in such a position that they may get the best return for their work. But if the syllabus were given out at the beginning of the year, these results could be reached as well, or even better; for it would then serve as an index, or table of contents, to the work to be done, and some...
...Given up my cold bath, as I find I can't get to Prayers if I take it. Lost six pounds in weight...