Word: instincts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...without the name of the offender, and shall further inform them that both the offence and the offender are known by the members of the Faculty, we believe will indirectly justify itself. The greater part of cheating in written work is due to thoughtlessness rather than to any vicious instinct, and a method of appealing to the better side of individuals is sure to be effective...
...ought not to resist it, that every one has a right to love, and that love has a right to everything. Such a conception was new in French literature. It was the outcome of Rousseau's theories and of the belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman, the sublime lover and the tyrannical husband. A reaction against this conception took place in Flaubert and the younger Dumas...
Harvard made most of her ground on short gains through the centre, but was as a rule unable to pass Groton's ends. As a whole, the Freshman eleven did not play the hard, fast game they were capable of and were lacking in what may be called football instinct. On the defensive they were very uncertain. On one play Groton's backs would be thrown for a loss, but a moment later would gain by a simple trick...
...Nihilists. It has a strong historical background and an absorbing plot. Jokai never forgets that, after all, the story is the thing, and here is one whose moving complications may well stir the feeblest pulse. It is a book to read and to be read again, a story instinct with the pure romance of the Thousand-and-One Nights...
Professor Chamberlain began his lecture by pointing out that the modern inventive activity of man has long been foreshadowed among primitive peoples. There has been something of mechanical skill in them all, and this instinct has in many cases been brought to a great degree of practical perfection. In the great majority of cases, in primitive folk-lore, the origin of all invention has been attributed directly to the God or Great Spirit. His very name has in many cases meant simply maker, shaper or in some cases even potter. He has been thought to have originated every single thing...