Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Again, it often happens that a man's wealth spoils his possibilities of deep and diversified friendship. For it is among workers and never among idlers that true friendships are formed. But there are other possessions than those of money which interfere with a man's possibilities and foremost among these are intellectual possessions. These hinder the fulfillment of intellectual possibilities in three ways. First, many men of exceptional intellectual endowments waste themselves and their abilities just because their very brilliancy makes them unwilling to undergo necessary mental drudgery. Again, a man's academic possessions interfere with his possibilities when...
...hold at East Northfield, in Northern Massachusetts, aims to create in every man who attends a sound mind in a sound body. With this object in view, it provides for mental, spiritual and bodily exercise. One of the really great endowments that Northfield hands down lies in the strong friendships that are formed there. For men of common interest in the fundamental things of life come together in a delightfully informal manner and find in each other characteristics that make for strong and permanent friendship. Perhaps the strongest impression one receives, however, is that life must be lived in sincerity...
Everybody's--"Friendship," by S. W. Mitchell h.'86; "Love's Dwelling-Place," by A. M. Huntington...
...assumed at the start in the peculiar assignment of the rooms; but on the other hand, there is the excellent contention that a mixture of men of all classes, of law and graduate students even, is the best possible arrangement for a dormitory in giving a man opportunities for friendship with men both older and younger than himself. Whatever the possibilities of this scheme may be for men with a year or the experience in undergraduate life, it is rarely true of Freshmen, and Princeton is fortunate in being able to group a large number of their first year...
...here; not one of the antiquated and inconvenient buildings of the Yard, but a modern dormitory which could offer to a large number of men comfortable accommodations, possibly a common dining hall to which all members of the class would be eligible, and the greatly increased opportunity for intimate friendship with a larger majority than is possible at present...