Word: soberness
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...present a speech is made to Freshmen by the leading scholar of the Senior class; in English A the attention of the new men is called to the valuable scholarships which the University offers; and, touching the honorary fraternity of scholars, a sober and dignified statement of the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa is published at the beginning of the year in the CRIMSON. Surely this is enough to acquaint every student with the fact that there are certain rewards for intelligent study. There is no need of lowering the dignity of Phi Beta Kappa by issuing a call...
...material things of his profession attract him. His manner of life remained throughout, simple, with just a dash of Puritan austerity. He was so much more interested in his profession than in the outward shows of life that he apparently gave them little thought or none. His quiet, sober achievement and its great contribution to the sum of human happiness prompts once more to acknowledgment of that sturdy quality in the New England families which placed the conscientious discharge of duties above all titles or rewards
...them, and reconciles them. Another teaching is prominent: that true faith is something so deep and so compelling that it can be confined to no one sect or race. He who goes to this play with an unreasoning and instinctive aversion to a Jew, will find much material for sober reflection. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," be he Jew or Gentile; and to think rightly is impossible without faith in God. This may sound like sermonizing, but if ever a sermon brought conviction to the heart of its hearer, this one preached by Mr. Thomas...
...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...