Word: cites
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...want to put just a few words in your paper to cite a situation of questionable justice. I, an undergraduate, bought a season ticket and supported the football team by attending all the games throughout the season, preliminary to the Yale game. I wanted to see the Yale game and accordingly sent in my season ticket with four dollars for two seats. I had done all that any undergraduate could do; I had complied with every condition. When the seats were distributed I found that I had two seats in the extreme corner section, twenty-five yards behind the goal...
...Bonaparte then went on to cite the case of Baltimore with which he is personally familiar and where he has fought bossdom. "Praetorianism" is the system that served to continue bossdom in Baltimore, said Mr. Bonaparte, and the government there existing was distinctly oligarchical. Now, the oligarchy there has fallen, but the success of bossdom in New York warns us of danger. The great parties themselves are corrupt. Men do not get offices as rewards of merit. The remedy is right before us. The nation has made the civil service a breathing place for parasites. Restore this service...
...Vergil again, you see, for the happiest expression of what I was trying to say. It was these shy allurements and provocations of Omar Khayyam's Persian which led Fitzgerald to many a peerless phrase and made an original poet of him in the very act of translating. I cite this instance merely by way of hint that as a spur to the mind, as an open-sesame to the treasures of our native vocabulary, the study of a living language (for literary, not linguistic, ends) may serve as well as that of any which we rather inaptly call dead...
...agreed, however, to put faith in their reason, because without it no progress can be made. This is even more true of religious faith. Absolutely no progress has been made by a people without religion. No civilized nation can exist or has existed without it. It is absurd to cite cases of individuals who are rationalists, and to say "these men have existed without religion." Religion was born in them, they were brought up under its influence and surrounded by its advocates. They cannot avoid its effects. So since religious faith is essential to our progress, even more perhaps than...
...vaguest ideas as to the regulations that exist. We do not take the pains to familiarize ourselves with the regulations as they are, but accept, instead, various statements passed on from class to class. Very often students will even go to the college office and, with perfect sincerity, cite regulations which have nothing but a mythical existence...