Word: possession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...diction, while the American breed is uncouth and unintelligible. From the study of other literatures we are able to derive a style of our own in which the beauties of several languages are combined; by the study of archaeology, by the study of history of any kind, facts which possess a deep significance of their own are laid before us. If our minds are too dull or too lazy to form the necessary conclusions from them, or if we fancy that we can live safely, while we are stumbling along without a knowledge of the perils that have gone before...
...gain, and the pleasure they will derive from it to go to Mr. Lathrop and enter their names for the squad; of course we do not advise any feeble-bodied or ridiculously unfit persons to occupy places that would better be filled by others; but men who fancy they possess any ability for any branch of track athletics ought not to be timid about presenting themselves where they will meet a cordial reception...
...true to itself, making it more. Control that diminishes the quantity of choice is one thing; control that raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young...
...deserves. For my own part, I can devise but one explanation. Probably the men who converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn...
...friends of higher education must rejoice in the announcement that the Pacific States are to possess a university which bids fair to rival in the magnificence of the endowment, and in the completeness of its equipment, the famous colleges of the East. Stanford University promises to be in time, to the States of the Pacific Coast what Harvard or Yale is to the Eastern States. Judging from the plan of Gen. Francis A. Walker, and remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future...