Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...general rule for all colleges is likely to prove desirable, for colleges may have "somewhat different ideals to labor for." Taking Columbia as an example, however, the four years' course appears too long. A sentiment against it has been growing up for many years and has been made manifest lately by Harvard's announcement favoring graduation in three years and by Columbia's provision which allows the last college year to be combined with the first year in the professional schools. Both of these plans are criticized, however, as failing to give support to a college course of purely liberal...
...step we should retain the college, with its two years of liberal studies, as an integral element in our system; shorten by two years the combined periods of secondary school, college and professional instruction; and . . . at the same time we should retain the four years' course with all its manifest advantages and opportunities to all who look forward to a scholarly career, and for as many of those who intend to enter upon some active business after graduation as can be induced to follow...
...comparison of "Vanity Fair" with "Becky Sharp," it must be remembered that one is the work of a great dramatist, the other of a minor playwright. At the outset it is manifest that the novel must be radically altered in plot before it can be put on the stage. It needs, as playwrights say, a "situation...
...Republican party seems to afford the best immediate opportunity for liberal legislation; although it must be confessed that progress towards world-wide trade is more likely to come through the logic of events than than through legislation--that is, through the increasing superiority of American industries and the manifest insufficiency of the home market." The other passage, concluding the paragraph, modifies the assertion concerning Republican capitalists...
...these words is Simon Magus, who, while journeying in Samaria, encounters St. Peter and St. John, who have brought the gift of a new illumination to the converts of the young deacon Philip. They have taught and blessed, and the marvelous tokens of this transforming presence straightway became manifest in them. Simon sees and wonders at it and eager to rouse a kindred ardor says: "Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost." The text is St. Peter's answer...