Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...animal state; or by religion, raising him above self-consciousness. The method Christianity officers to accomplish this, is the cultivation of altruistic motives. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all thy might and thy soul and with all thy might and thy neighbor as thyself." As altruism, or unselfishness increases, death loses its fears. It will be said in future centuries, that in this age men begin to think less about death...
...community to remain a subject for legislative vagaries; another was that it should be religious, not to say sectarian; a third reason was the inevitable increase of a citizen's burdens as a bachelor for the luxury of a college education of the children of his wealthy neighbor. One of the motives that had led the people to establish schools for higher education is the conviction that by so doing primary instruction is better secured. The higher education gave the tone and determined the character of the lower. The elementary schools in Germany were the best in the world...
...college as graduates and take their positions in the world to exert an influence in drawing students to the college. No influence is so quick to turn the decision of one who is as yet undecided what college to attend, as the personal influence or report of some neighbor or friend who is already in attendance at any college. It is ture that the choice of college for many is practically settled when the choice of a preparatory school is made. But of late years this state of affairs has been changing rapidly. No longer...
...them to see a game. Of course in the present unsettled condition of the eleven this is impossible and in the matches which are played now, we expect to see a team on the field, every man in which has on a different colored pair of stockings from his neighbor; but in the intercollegiate games there seems to be no reason why this should be so, and it always has been so, or at least very nearly so. Columbia and Princeton, certainly, if not Yale, always put a better looking eleven, as far as uniforms are concerned, on the field...
...cane as the spirit moves him. Though he is small there is no fear in his soul. The days are quiet, and the nights are still more so. Occasionally some sophomore having assured himself that no angry freshman is abroad to injure him, steals forth to sample his neighbor's grapes, but this is a mere ripple on the calm surface of events. For three years college precedents have been changing or dying out, and college history instead of being a kind of annual repetition, has each year varied." The Student attributes this state of affairs to the influence...