Word: possession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...until after Christ's time that men began to enquire whether this masculine quality of bravery was all that a man ought to possess. As they began to enquire, they began to improve, and so the meaning of the word developed, until it has come to include not merely bravery, but all the distinctly moral virtues, which one must have today if he would be a true...
...University of Chicago has shown Itself in so many instances to possess a spirit unusually broad and liberal for an institution so young, that the announcement of compulsory attendance at chapel prayers there is hardly consistent with the professed policy, of the university or in accordance with the growing sentiment among other colleges. At Yale the feeling that prayers should be voluntary is becoming stronger each year and doubtless it will not be long before she follows the example which Harvard set some half dozen years ago and have prayers voluntary to students. With us the abolishment of compulsory attendance...
...Harvard Musical Association, which has just taken up its new quarters in Boston, is the oldest musical association connected with the college, and it is to its early influence that we owe most of the musical advantages which we possess here. The Pierian Sodality was founded in 1808, and about thirty years later members of the society formed the Association, the purpose being to get graduates interested in the society and to better the condition of music at Harvard...
...system of free competition we have today is essentially a system of war, and it produces in men the qualities of solidness. Some of the leaders in industry have all the courage of action, alertness of stategy, and farsightedness in planning, that great commanders in war possess; but, as truly, some of the leaders are thoroughly unscrupulous, with nerves and consciences equally hardened. Indeed if a successful financier is a man of light character, it is more accident than a natural result of the standard of trade. And beyond this, the masses are sifted down, made machines of, told...
...best that has yet appeared. It is written in a spirit of friendliness - even of love we may say - and is very appreciative. "The life of Whittier," he says, "affects us rather as singularly fortunate in the completeness with which he was able to do his whole duty, to possess his soul, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Lovers of New England will cherish his memory as that of a man in whom the virtues of this soil, both for public and for private life, shine most purely...