Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Carlisle's Plan for retiring them is wise. - (a) Withdrawal gradual. - (1) To be deposited by banks as guarantee funds: Plan, S 2, (Boston Herald, Dec. 5, 1894). - (2) To be redeemed by yearly surplus: Plan, S 10 (Boston Herald, Dec. 5, 1894). - (b) Vacuum to be filled by bank notes. - (c) These bank notes furnish an elastic currency. - (1) Profitable for banks to increase issue on demand. - (2) Redemption secured...
...aware that there is a sentiment of some strength for the gradual introduction of co-education into Harvard on the ground that educational advantages are the right of women no less than of men, and that Harvard has educational advantages which cannot be found elsewhere. Yet the practical objections to the adoption of this ideal justice are great, and few would care to meet them. The growth of Radcliffe along the lines which it is taking promises a happy solution of the difficulty; it will avoid awkward arrangements and yet will open to women practically all the advantages open...
This cannot satisfactorily explain the resistless influence of religious force. It is better to think of this feeling as the gradual fading away of our known limits and the revealing of a vast futurity. The adding to religion of what we know is thus the universalizing as well as the spiritualizing of our world...
From the first it is the feeling of law which governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music...
deeply concern us, and control of the future, and yet that it cannot even give us the fool's paradise it promised us; at such a moment it needs some moderation not to be attacking Philistinism by storm, but to mine it through such gradual means as the slow approaches of culture. But the hard unintelligence, which is just now our bane, cannot be conquered by storm, it must be supplied and reduced by culture, by a growth in the variety, fullness, and sweetness of our spiritual life; and this end can only be reached by studying things that...