Word: confront
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...These conferences are an entirely new experiment at Harvard. The questions to be discussed will be those pertaining to college discipline, athletics, and any exceptional problem of administration that may confront the University. The meetings will be a common meeting-ground for Faculty and students for the interchange of opinion. There are several specific subjects that may receive the attention of this deliberative body, among which are the present status of athletics and the matter of honor in examinations...
...probability that before another year some relief from the overcrowded condition of the Library will be obtained, is a gratifying one. 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...
Originality is another of the evils which confront the American architect of the present day. The real cause for this difficulty is that Americans are constantly striving to be different from every one else and in consequence are original when there is no real necessity. True originality lies in the ability to separate the good from the evil in our own work, and if we compose in the right way we can never cease to be original...
...learn this art of selecting such of our air castles as are most likely to materialize? Our common sense and our consciences must teach us. Experience, too, can help us, but it is too likely to discourage by showing all the difficulties which will confront us when we try to make our ideals take material form. It is true that no house can contain the Lord, but we have the power of building by our lives one in which He will be well pleased to dwell...