Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of the early close of the spring term and the approach of the "annuals," Technology men have not been able to devote much time to athletics; still, the outlook is favorable More attention will be paid to baseball this year than has been for some time, although it is not known yet whether there will be a 'varsity nine. The candidates for the class teams are already at work, and there is a fair prospect that some good material will be developed. The class of '89 has a good pitcher in Pike. Highlands, '91, is also a good...
...nature of the approach to the Acropolis was also treated by the lecturer. Very little is known of the early roadway leading up to the citadel. The changes made in the approach in the time of the Romans, the Franks and the Turks were described, as well as the modern way built after the establishment of the Greek kingdom in 1833. The lecture was closed with a historical sketch of the Propylaea in later times, and the changes which it underwent in its transformation into a fortified garrison...
...reference to the study of Homer, Professor Wright urged that the student approach him with the feeling that he is nearing a monument in literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...
...made great gains in two directions, first in an increase of rational methods. Formerly the cause of temperance was in the hands of unreasonable and irrational men, who by their immoderate methods, turned away observing men. They taught that without total abstinence was the greatest peril but if we approach the subject more carefully we shall see that a man may take a glass of liquor without absolute ruin; but, on the other hand, we shall see that there is a growing consensus of opinion pointing to absolute temperance, and that to succeed in life a man must follow...
Another evil attends the practice, now become so common, of intercollegiate matches. As these contests approach, there is more or less distraction of the minds of the students from their proper pursuits, and for the time being a more or less serious neglect of study. This is an evil inevitable while the present system is maintained, and is of sufficient magnitude to justify, in the opinion of the undersigned, an absolute prohibition of intercollegiate games altogether...