Word: possession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...preservation of the childish simplicity and contemplativeness of all of us, which the college career tends to destroy. He says: "A college course is useful primarily because it helps to retain-by virtue of its emphasizing influence-that element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which is the glory of the child...
...urged for months to give their consent to the expedition, when the journey inland has to be picked with care to avoid hostile Arab tribes, and when the Arabs in and about the excavation camp are eager for the hordes of gold which the expedition is supposed to possess, the man who has such an expedition on his shoulders has to possess a good deal of resolution. Dr. Peters modestly gave an example of his tact by telling how he worked upon the superstitions of the natives by an abundant display of fireworks...
...your teaching, then indeed you may free humanity from a spectre before which it yet trembles, and but yesterday seemed ready to despair." It is such a spirit as this that prevades the entire article, - a spirit which Harvard may be proud to have her sons possess...
...photographs which the Camera Club opened last evening in Sever. Apart from the fact that the exhibition is devoted solely to college work, the photographs are a fairly interesting lot. And when the collection is looked at as an indication of the artistic feeling which the college men possess, then it becomes well worth looking at. We hope that the Camera Club will consider this exhibition as merely the beginning of a series of annual or even semiannual exhibitions. They have an excellent opportunity of drawing out and fostering the artistic element of the college; and such is the importance...
...Element in Education." In the older days, education was broad and general; now everyone and everything tends towards specialism. General culture must be the result of self imposed labours if it is to be had at all and certainly no one can be considered well educated unless he possess a general knowledge of literature. General reading leads to individuality and original work; it ministers more directly to personality. The late Thomas DeQuincy, a self educated man, divided reading into two classes; that for information and that for power. Literature for information is overwhelmingly abundant in this century. Essays are written...