Word: hides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...claim for ourselves a place in the front rank of American universities, and yet this claim is seldom made. The press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania are content to hide our light under a bushel. We have a corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons, lawyers...
...United States have a solemn mission, one and all, to perform; and their President, not more surely than every man who loves his country, must assume his share of the responsibility of demonstrating to the nations of the world, the success of popular government. [Applause.] No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his selfishness deserves, and the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites...
...although such a vision will often disappear, still, having once shined upon our inward eyes, its inspiration remains after its rays are extinguished. A helmsman during a temporary lifting of the fog sees a light upon the coast; once seen, the fog may again fall over it and hide it from his sight; enough, he has seen his light, and now has his bearings. What part can religion have in a university life? It cannot interfere with neighboring churches or set up individual creeds. No, it must have a prophetic office; it must say to the religious experiences "this...
...upon recitations pure and simple, the practice of "skinning" in all its forms has grown up. The writer remembers only one course in his whole college experience from which he got any real pleasure. With this one exception he feels that he can say with Teufelsdroch, "my teachers were hide-bound pedants...
...substance of Spinosa, the monads of Leibnitz, and from the subjunctive forms of presentation of Kant, that philosophy has never neglected to compare the calculable operations of her hypothesis with the operations that fall under her observation.' Vassar and other "sweet girl graduates," remarks an exchange, may now hide their diminished heads...