Word: strife
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...Bologna and Paris. The causes which made these institutions possible are the same. When the crusades had thoroughly leavened the social and mental structure of Europe, the municipalities of Lombardy demanded a corps of trained administrators to cope with the problems of a vigorous trading policy and intense political strife. This tendency was localized by the pitching of Irnerius and an able body of successors who maintained the glory of the school. At the beginning of the 13th century there were 10,000 students in Bologna; toward the end of the century the number had doubled. The town of course...
...smoothed over, without permanent ill-feeling. We trust that the Princeton Alumni who are supporting so vigorously - as 'tis said - their president in his mistaken quarrel, will adopt as moderate and pacific a tone as the Harvard Alumni, and devote their energies not to fomenting, but to allaying the strife...
...great pity that the same friendship which has always existed between the students of Harvard and Princeton, should not extend to their Faculties. It is a great pity that a liberal doctrine can cause strife, or continue it; but there must be no denial of principle, and no sacrifice of dignity on Harvard's part to restore the cooled cordiality...
...this throng come up, out of the bustle and strife of the forum and the market place, to our academic seat? What spirit stirs this multitude to-day? You have come to pay homage to the university of your love, and through it to all universities; because in them truth is sought, knowledge increased and stored, literature, science and art are fostered, and honor, duty, and piety are taught. The spirit in which you come is a spirit of profound and well-grounded hopefulness...
...very extensive lapse of time to prove that the lessons of a college, however large, are not the lessons of life. The power of grind must resolve itself into pluck, facility to learn must become sagacity, and ambition for college honors must give place to a higher and nobler strife, to make college training a proper preparation for after life. But why need we offer the unprofitable advice of a younger brother? It is justly expected of us to say, "Your record is one of which you may be proud, and with you go our heartfelt wishes for success." This...