Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Education in the Preparatory Schools," exemplifies clearly the present false relation between the schools and the colleges. The college has been forced for its own good to assume a certain position, to set a certain standard of admission and to admit to its curriculum only such students as approximately approach this standard. It has had to dictate to the schools the kind and amount of work that must be accomplished by their pupils to it them for college work. Such a condition of affairs is hurtful to the best interests of the community, for it results in a forced...
...First, people believed in the unity of the universe, it was no longer a mass of segregated and separate phenomena. Secondly, they believed in a single God, not a definite one, but a God, illimitable, transcending all knowledge. Above all, people learned that it is desirable and possible to approach this God directly. The pagans, in the church of the middle ages, had constructed a process of mediation, but perhaps they were excusable because it was but the first attempt to bridge over the gap between...
Isaac Butt, in 1870, originally started the movement, suggesting a means of reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain, which now seems about to approach a happy consummation. His movement even then was supported by the protestants and conservatives of Ireland. In the great meeting at Dublin they said that they wished no separation from England, but they would not have their domestic affairs regulated by an English parliament. The views propounded by the meeting rapidly spread. The extremists fell in with the movement, and had it been led with sternness then, things might have been far cifferent than at present...
...first of the communications on the front page, a suggestion is made which is certainly worthy serious consideration. That Germany should have honored the memory of famous Harvard men when their own Alma Mater had neglected to do so in the same specific way seems almost incomprehensible. The nearest approach that we have at Harvard to the practice of Gottingen in erecting tablets inscribed with the names of famous men who have attended the University are the tablets in Memorial Hall to the memory of heroes whom our Alma Mater mourns...
...immediately at the close of the term. The subject can very easily be brought to the attention of excursion companies, and a skilful handling of their proposals must result in offers of very low rates. If some move is taken thus early those details which generally make the near approach of an event the signal for trouble and confusion, may be settled gradually and a comparatively easy path opened for those in charge...