Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...changes, the risks of accident in so crowded and enclosed a place are still considerable. For this reason, and because they are ambitions for '98 to accept the possibilities offered for really impressive and suitable exercises, they are anxious to have the change made before they are obliged to compel...
...with regret then that we saw that Cornell apparently did not appreciate our position, and it comes as a relief to know that we had stated it clearly at the Albany conference, and so did not compel her to act in the dark. This knowledge does not lessen our keen disappointment that a race has not been arranged, but enables us to support more firmly the action of Yale's representatives in finally declining a condition that could not be accepted in justice to ourselves...
...proposed system would injuriously restrict methods of work.- (a) It would virtually compel students to work at all their courses at the same time.- (1) It would require them to be ready for examination in all at the end of the same short periods.- (b) This rigid enforcement of simultaneous work is bad.- (1) It is often necessary for best results to put most of one's time on one subject for a continuous period, as in thesis writing.- (2) It is always desirable that students should feel that they can work continuously on one subject if they wish...
...characteristic features of President Eliot's report compel the attention of the reader: First, his careful study of a general educational problem-the proper adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools; and secondly, his suggestion of many very interesting questions which come up in the administration of the University itself. One of the most interesting things which he discusses is the group of courses most largely taken by students in the College under the existing elective system. The President does not tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives...
...total of 125,000 men, 37,000 were lost, Rosecrans found himself cooped up in Chattanooga, almost without supplies. The Confederates, on the heights above, stretching from one point on the river around the town to the river again, awaited with confidence the time when starvation would compel the Union army to surrender...