Word: hides
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...requested co-operation in an attempt to check the systematic borrowing or stealing of books which has taken place this year. Of actual thefts no comment is necessary other than the expression of a hope that the perpetrators will eventually be ascertained. The individuals, however, who borrow or hide books which are much in demand may be amenable to reason and to a recognition of the rights of fellow members. Recently a certain book was prescribed in Philosophy E. Immediately the volume disappeared from the library, and not until after the class had been examined on the reading it contained...
This young man may be regarded as a forerunner of some students of today, who set up intellectual difficulties in the way of faith, but who really have moral difficulties which they are attempting to hide...
...than it was twenty, or even ten years ago, although the actual burden has grown steadily lighter. Under the circumstances such a state of feeling is not to be wondered at, and it has borne hard on the managers, for the unwilling subscriber has now a convenient fence to hide behind; indeed he can even display indignation that such an appeal is made to him. This feeling that it is an "outrage" and an "intolerable nuisance" that the undergraduates should be called upon for subscriptions to support their own athletics is particularly unfortunate...
...policy, furthermore, will teach them that they cannot in their wrong-doing hide behind the shield of the Mon- roe Doctrine; that we will not protect them in the unjust repudiation of honest obligations. Let them once lose part of their territory as a result of their own wrongdoing and they will soon eradicate the evils from which the loss arose. Any policy which allows the debt to remain unpaid after the day set for payment, would mean nullification of the award of the Hague tribunal. Not only, then, will our policy do justice to European countries, but also will...
...their lives and their interests, as it is meant to be, they cannot in conscience keep from trying to spread it. What wonder that religion is sometimes called a weak and effeminate thing, what wonder that it is often robbed of its influence and uplifting power, when men hide it in the solitary musings of their minds, and date not, or care not to die out it must grow through unselfish service and through philanthropic and missionary work...