Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...refer to the scholarships, the loan fund, and the like, the benefit of which is well-known; but to the quiet work done by individuals for those who are seen to be in need of help. Wealthy men here, not generally given the reputation of having concern for their fellow-students, have been known time and again to give large sums for men whom they had seen about them, and, in the giving, to keep their own personalities wholly in the background. Members of the Faculty say that many times each year they are called upon to be the medium...
...freshman nine was seriously crippled only a day or two before the first game with the Princeton freshmen in that the man, who was then regarded as the strongest pitcher the nine had, was put upon probation. That such loss should not be suffered this year is the concern of the whole University; for the freshman teams bear the responsibility and have the honor of representing not only their class but their University...
...always do something for it. The great danger of our country is now the lack of just this spirit of unselfish patriotism. Our government at Washington is chiefly made up of men who have no thought for the best interests of the country and who do not concern themselves with any duties of government further than they find these useful in advancing themselves and their friends politically, or in getting money. Even now there is encamped in one of the beautiful valleys of Maryland an army of eight thousand vagabonds who are marching to Washington with no further purpose than...
...deeply concern us, and control of the future, and yet that it cannot even give us the fool's paradise it promised us; at such a moment it needs some moderation not to be attacking Philistinism by storm, but to mine it through such gradual means as the slow approaches of culture. But the hard unintelligence, which is just now our bane, cannot be conquered by storm, it must be supplied and reduced by culture, by a growth in the variety, fullness, and sweetness of our spiritual life; and this end can only be reached by studying things that...
...public opinion into the right channels. A minister can not preach mere sentiment on matters of law, but to talk reasonably and to influence his congregation in the right way, he must understand thoroughly such points as are likely to arise. It is sometimes said that ministers should not concern themselves with the laws of this world but should rather seek to teach the people the laws of the spirit. This is a very wrong point of view. The minister has always stood and will always stand as the head and guiding power of public opinion. Ministers are usually better...