Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the last few years the great growth of Harvard has been making itself manifest in even the smallest branches of the University. The statistics which are published every year bear witness to the unfailing increase in the number of men who choose Harvard as the institution at which to gain their higher education; and the present year especially has seen a tremendous addition to the numbers of the students. Side by side with these statistical evidences of growth have been seen others equally telling. The accommodations of the college have had to be increased to meet the pressure...
...case of ordinances, the superiority of having their issuance in the hands of the mayer is manifest from his superiority of character. The same would be true in the case of appropriations...
...service at one o'clock and the regular weekly conference meeting in the evening. It is to be hoped that a great many men will join in all of these services. This is one of the occasions when the real beauty of our voluntary religious system can be fully manifest. The religious spirit receives a free, unhampered expression; all that is expressed is true worship...
...Come Forth, My Love!" is perhaps the better of the two poems, and evidences some love of nature on the part of its author. There is a Swinburnian luxuriousness and verboseness about the whole poem, and in the first five lines especially we are impressed by the manifest prevalence of Nature-osculation. The metre of several lines is decidedly faulty...
...rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal and deformed and entrenched himself there. The process is a psychological one and English writers have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes. But the tendency is the same, to manifest the invisible world of inward inclinations and dispositions by the visible world of outward words and actions. Meanwhile the romanticism though declining in vigour, is far from decrepitude and has too been an international influence...