Word: gradually
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...English occupation cannot be a success.- (a) Government must be despotic except as changed by gradual growth; for (x) it has been despotic for thousands of years: Fort. Rev. 63, as above.- (b) English and Egyptians can never harmonize: Fort. Rev. p. 897 (June, 1884).- (c) It has for its object England's self-interest.- (d) French is the official and judicial language, and sympathies are all French: Contemp. Rev. 67, 390 (March '95).- (1) England has failed utterly to introduce the English language, and has thus failed to gain control over the native population.- (e) Egyptians despise the English...
...Robert S. Peabody, of Boston, lectured last evening in the Fogg Museum on "The Country House." The lecture consisted for the most part of a tracing of the gradual developent of the modern country house from the ancient Roman villa...
Professor Putnam lectured last evening in the Fogg Museum on "The Ethnic Significance of Conventionalism and Symbolism in Ancient American Art." He traced by means of illustrations the gradual development from realism to conventionalism and symbolism in the carvings left by the savage peoples. By means of following this development, said Professor Putnam, we have a chance to study the beginings of art till we get into the pure idealism which the old classics have given...
...between the truths of science and religion. By many people religion has been taken as a kind of sentiment rather than a rational belief. The first real difficulty in the way has been the Biblical account of the creation of the world in six days. In view of the gradual development of other planets, it seems hard to believe that the world could have reached so high a state of development in six days. But this account is not to be taken too literally; on the contrary we may fairly assume that the world was many ages in reaching...
...entertaining but also of great value. Few members of the University have any real acquaintance with the history of Harvard during the last forty years. Every one of course is familiar with the great events that have marked that period, but very few know well the story of the gradual changes that have taken place as the horizon of the College has widened, both as regards the student life and the government of the University. The men that have been chosen to speak on the last three decades of Harvard's history, are all men who are most familiar through...