Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adversary of the public school system, an adversary whose opposition is avowed, positive and usually logical is the Catholic denomination - in its clergy, for left to themselves the laity would be inert in the matter. The Catholic church has put the schools in this dilemma: schools that retain the shadow of religious instruction are denounced as sectarian, while those that leave it out are branded as godless. And to neither kind, the church declares, can it send its children; accordingly, at the late council in Baltimore, it ordered the erection of parochial schools throughout the country...
...much vigor. The discipline for non-attendance at prayers was very severe, and the culprit took a prominent position in the displeasure of the faculty. The narrator got excused early in his freshman year as he lived out of prayer limits. Soon after he moved up under the shadow of Appleton and dwelt there a year before the validity of his excuse was questioned. He was then summoned by the president and later called before a full meeting of the faculty where, after most of the prominent officers of the college had questioned him in turn, he was publicly reprimanded...
...which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold of an unvarying, underlying truth...
...individual opinion," and is therefore of the greatest value as such! We learn, however, from the same competent authority that "some of the strongest men on the last foot-ball team will be left to retrieve Yale's former prestige." Harvard's reputation, alas, is rapidly becoming a mere shadow and an exhalation...
...than the first, and any change which tends to relieve it of its over-plus of work cannot but be regarded as a change for the better. When the mid-year examinations have dragged through their, to some of us, rather aimless existence, the startled student finds that the shadow of the cloister-like course of study which he must embrace to survive the annuals is close upon him. In past years, this realization of the coming storm has induced many to seek recuperation in a voluntary recess. But now we will be allowed a longer respite before the trying...