Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Owing to the financial pressure, it may happen that the relief will be only temporary and not sufficient to settle once for all the difficulties which confront the Library management. However, even an improvement in the conditions of waiting for the final change which is to make the Library approach perfection, is matter for congratulation...
...that its real meaning is that Christ by laying down his life became the redeemer of the world in several different relations. First, Jesus by the shedding of his blood cleansed the divine altar contaminated by the sins of men, thus providing an open path by which man can approach the throne. Secondly, the shed blood of Jesus cleanses the man himself making him pure and clean and invigorating him with the energy of a new life. In this verse, however, the author is thinking of the shedding, not the use of blood after its being shed...
...range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically, yet with some approach to accuracy in the distinction of certain primary characteristics. In these lectures, it has been my desire, however inadequately in the nature of things I have been able to fulfil it, to keep these lines of psychical and aesthetic distinction more or less clearly in view; to grasp as well...
...other hand, it is plain that, with due regard for business management, it is practical to approach the ideal more nearly than has been done in the past. The games in New York are recognized to be of very questionable value to college athletics, and the innovation, suggested by the Harvard management this year, of playing a tie game on the grounds of another college, was well made. The success with which this was realized will, we are confident, cause many other college games to be arranged on the same plan...
...longer series of supplements containing fragments from Professor Lowell's college lectures will be available than was at first expected. Instead of six supplements there will proably be twelve. The number issued this year will not, however, exceed six, since it is desired not to make too close an approach to the final examination period. The remaining six supplements will appear during the course of the coming academic year...