Word: objectiveness
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...BETA KAPPA.This society was first introduced into this country about the year 1776, in which year a charter was granted to the college of William and Mary of Virginia. The society quickly extended to Harvard, and a chapter was founded there in 1781. The object of the society was the promotion of literature and friendly intercourse among scholars, but only those students who obtained a high rank were admitted. The motto of the society is "Philosophia, Biou Kubernetes," or "Philosophy, the Guide of Life." The Phi Beta Kappa now has chapters in very nearly every college of note...
...paradise is but a place of laughter and rest, and all our labor under the sun has for sole object rest and joy, whether of satisfied ambition, or of power...
...Christianity brought and humanitarianism what without it must be lacking, object, motive and power. The love and aid of our fellow-men was moreover a Christian idea; and however much men outside of the faith may have equalled or surpassed Christians in the development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power...
...less than before, Now, when they worked harder they must, I think, have learned at least a little more than they do now by working less. It is better, then, that they should learn less than before merely because to gain good marks is not in itself a high object...
...column of your valuable editorial space in trying to answer it? In justice to myself I may say that I have never had other than the very pleasantest relations with the library authorities, and I do not remember having incurred this year any of the penalties to which I object. The Malden and the Boston Public Libraries inflict fines of only two cents a day, and each has to deal with a much larger and more troublesome class of users than does Gore Hall. You quote me as claiming that the student "should be notified when the time is expiring...