Word: sober
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...glad recognition and generous encouragement of merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor, not sparing of himself if he might help others. His critical instinct was distinguished for its delicacy, his taste refined to severity, his judgment clear and sober. His mind was ripened into the temper of a true cosmopolitanism by study of the best books, by knowledge of his own and of other countries, and by acquaintance and enduring friendships with leading men of letters. He bore his learning with a grace that was peculiarly his own. Simplicity, sincerity...
...much one of the stock characters of the woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader would sympathize if he struck. Mr. Ashwell writes of a day's fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly shy of big and gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers--not the exuberance of fancy which is attributed to youth, but the exuberance of dictionary which makes some fashionable authors...
...describes the laudable and successful steps lately taken by the University to give graduate students just the kind of lodgings that they want. For Mr. Rogers' description of the new "Department of Social Ethics" perhaps a more illuminating illustration could have been found: for instance a view of the sober, student philanthropist visiting a saloon, or sleeping with a tramp--which he is described as doing--would bring the work home to us as the prospect of the tidy social ethics library does not. Mr. Curtis in "Analysis" tries to wheedle the ambitious into English 18. The remaining two articles...
...nowadays simply stirs up decent lads to do things that they are adapt to be ashamed of at the time and pretty sure to be ashamed of later." The mere fact that as this same writer also states "its membership includes among the graduates a great many solid, sober and responsible citizens," makes the charged criminality of its actions more absurd and allows us to see the whole affair through the eyes of those who understand Harvard, and how the traditions of an organization which had a place in times gone by still influence men of the present...
...this evening to discuss a question of the hour. Not for years has the country been so stirred over a matter of pure legislation as over the status which Congress shall decide upon for Porto Rico. This is a live, practical question, one that invites the sober consideration of every American. The decision of the American people on this question will decide whether we are to continue along that line of development which we have successfully followed since the beginning of our national existence...