Word: fear
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...public life is essential; for, referring to its absence he says: "As one example, take our attitude toward the corrupt use of money in our elections and in our representative bodies. . . . There can be no reverence for law where laws and law makers are bought with money, and I fear we are rapidly destroying the possibility of such reverence in the minds of our countrymen. We ought never to forget that in democratic governments the black flag of corruption is apt to be followed by the rd flag of anarchy." The article closes with expression of confidence in the ultimate...
...view of the decision of the Senior class to wear caps and gowns: "Unless every Senior wears the cap and gown, the main sentimental purpose of the scheme will certainly be lost,--namely, the bringing of Seniors into close relations with each other;" and, in conclusion, it expresses the fear that "it is highly improbable that these distinctions, which have no tradition behind them, will bring together classes which the natural evolution of the University is irresistibly disuniting...
...hindsight avails, the Southerners in 1850 could not have seen any threat to their civilization from specific material interests in the North. It was the North's moral awakening and not its industrial alertness, its free thought and not its free labor which the Southern planters had to fear. We can not, however, see what actually happened unless we go inside of the Southern civilization, observe the forces that threatened it, and humanly understand what purposes and impulses governed the Southerners themselves while they were fighting these as well as the enemies from without. Among the Southern people themselves there...
...agitation against the societies was begun through a fear that the system imperilled Yale democracy and because the societies encouraged politics in college matters...
President Eliot accepted the boat house in behalf of the University. He said that the development of the body is necessary to the cultivation of a sound mind, and that rowing is a great means to such development. However, he expressed the fear that rowing is not today as pure a pleasure as it should be, and as it was when he rowed on the crew. It is to be hoped that rowing will be further fostered in the near future by the construction of a dam at Craigie Bridge, which would keep the river at high water mark...