Word: precept
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken in defiance of the clear precept, "Love thine enemies----" Even his brother's failure to post in time a letter containing money for the mortgage leaves him with no sense of bitterness...
...respect of the cadets, and his consideration and constant good nature won their affection. By tact and good judgment he was able to be exacting and at the same time beloved. More important, perhaps, he presented to young men of an age when example counts quite as much as precept a conspicuous instance of what a soldier's life should be, a combination of clean living, clear thinking, and hard work that gave significance to the phrase "an officer and a gentleman...
...enunciated. This danger Harvard has always been able successfully to avoid. It has consistently "given thanks that it is not as other colleges are," chiefly because it has never said so, at least for publication. It has succeeded in maintaining this feeling by means of example, not by precept. The incoming Freshman comes to feel that he has at last reached a grown-up institution and that it is up to him to put away childlike things. Very often his illusions of what a college ought to be are shattered. Gone are the Ralph Henry Barbarism of "frattiness...
...essential part to play in the coming readjustment. Is it idle to think that the hardest and yet the most necessary lesson which must be taught will be mutual trust and co-operation among nations? And need it be suggested that example is ever a better teacher than precept? Let us by all means keep ourselves in a position to counsel peace and good will, without having others feel that we are meantime training our young men to fight against--them. And let us not waste our youth in a training which we pray never to have to use, when...