Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...offered, because the college could not offer a sufficient variety of instruction to satisfy the radically different religious views of the students. The advantage of the non-sectarian college is that under its wing, all forms of religion are safe. When young men make a choice, it is conscious one. They learn that the doctrines and rules of living, common to all sects, have more practical importance than the doctrines about which sects differ. What, on the other hand, are the disadvantages of an unsectarian college? It is asserted that it loses influence through want of support by any sect...
...meats, and the non-nitrogenous such as fats, starch, sugar, etc. A brain worker requires more fats, and a muscle worker more nitrogenous foods. Over brain exercise sometimes produces insensibility to hunger, and students, after light suppers and long night study, find themselves unable to sleep, although not conscious of lack of food. A light lunch is often a cure for this condition, and is to be advised after prolonged mental effort. The average man requires the food elements in about the proportion of 4 oz. nitrogenous, 3 oz. fats, and 13 oz. sugar, starch, etc. Lack...
...methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study something. . . . The will is honored as of prime consequence." Under the influence of a volition, a student works under no disguises, he is forced "to be conscious of what he is doing," to perceive "that gains and losses are immediately connected with a volitional attitude...
Leaning nonchalantly against the railing was a conscious figure immediately recognized as a potent, grave and reverend senior. Every thing, from his flossy silk hat to his boots said senior, while his manner of twirling his mustache and regarding all beholders was so superior and impressive that we trembled while we gazed...
...solitudes, while he, Lamb, could not muster a fiddle. And so he concludes that there was nothing inspired in his own poetry. I must confess to having felt the same mortification. There is my friend C., who has wonderful visions in his sleep; and when in a tone of conscious superiority, he tells me of them, I become so jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned...