Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...activity established as a university institution, two things are necessary,- first, the activity must be made of such a character as to merit general support, and, secondly, it must be conducted in practically the same way year after year, so that students shall learn to expect and to await its different events. The more change there is, the less well-known will be the institution. Where interest is small, it must be concentrated: if diffused, it will not make itself felt at all. A certain amount of interest, quite sufficient to make Yale debates a success, would probably be much...
...science is not essential before a man may begin to practise it as an art. Pure speculation is by no means useless, and there are men who seem to be fitted, above everything else, for investigating scientifically the place of religion in the world. White we eagerly await the results of these men's researches. and while every man may push on for himself as far as he can into the knowledge of religious truths, there is no reason why he must put off, until he knows all truth, the practice of that which he already knows. he gave...
...English entrance examinations for colleges Prof. Beers of Yale says: "The entrance requirements in English, recommended by the commission of New England colleges, and adopted with more or less success everywhere in New England except at Yale, have been severely criticised, and to Yale it seems prudent to await the result of these experiments, and to postpone any definition of her own policy in the matter until the question confronts her as a practical one, calling for immediate action...
...managers of the defunct Harvard University Training Table Association, are, we believe, to make some statement in a few days as to the causes whereby the scheme has so signally failed. We shall await this statement with considerable interest; for it ought to show in just what point the plan was fatally weak...
...course, as Yale wishes. It is Yale's duty to challenge Cornell for a freshman race, and Cornell will wait for that. Harvard, also, is to be challenged both to a freshman and 'varsity race, and, as a New York paper puts it, "the friends of Cornell will anxiously await the result...