Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well to think of them as what they are, patriotic servants of their country. It is hard to say in any single instance, "this man went only through love of adventure," or "that man desired subsequent political advancement," or "such a man has home ties which should have bound him." The question of enlistment is of an individual nature, one which every man has to decide for himself, and speaking generally each individual is the best judge of his responsibilities. Whether one goes or stays, the public must accept his action as for the best in his own estimation...
...enlists because of a feeling of unrest, from a desire to gratify a longing for excitement, or for any prospective advantage to himself, is not likely to be a man who will take kindly to discipline, and is liable to a revulsion of feeling after he has bound himself to years of service. If he were to act less on impulse, he might arrive at the conclusion that he could serve his country best by waiting and preparing for the possibility of a greater need, or he might discover that certain home duties and obligations did not justify the gratification...
...members by the addition of Assistant Professor F. B. Williams; a new scholarship, the Edward Wigglesworth, has been founded in the Medical School; and Dr. John Collins Warren has retired from the Faculty of the Veterinary School. The report of the College Library gives the total number of bound volumes at 355, 600, a gain of 11, 600 over
last year, and the several libraries of the University now contain all told 505,600 bound volumes, against the 490,300 of a year...
Thus to sum up: by their promise the Corporation are bound to give Phillips Brooks House a site in the yard, the site chosen is felt to be the only one available, the plans have been made and approved, and perhaps the building will after all not prove an eyesore. Granted after all not prove an eyesore. Granted that the promise of a site was a rash one, granted that there are obvious drawbacks to the selection is this, the eleventh hour, quite the time for opposition? If there is a general feeling among Harvard men against the Brooks House...