Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much to help in industrial crises. As witnesses of this, the good effect of the establishment of coffee houses, savings banks, etc., on the continent is cited. Labor has learned in this country to know its power, and how by holding the balance of power politically it may accomplish its end. The leaders of labor associations desire to use their political power to further their economic ends. But the danger lies in their dense ignorance of the laws of political economy and of kindred sciences. That this ignorance exists may be clearly seen by a glance at statements, glaringly false...
...library petition has been granted. The petition was signed by the majority of the students, and the fact that the faculty have seen fit to grant it proves conclusively that any reform of not too vital a nature can be accomplished by the united interest of the students. Reserved books can now be taken from the library between four in the afternoon and sunset. By this change the average gain in time by the students is nearly three-quarters of an hour each day. We sincerely trust that this privilege will not be abused, and that it will accomplish...
...name will long be held in memory by those whom he aided in obtaining an education. His sympathies were always with those who were struggling to attain a college degree, without sufficient means to accomplish their purpose, and he was ever ready to give any assistance in his power to such students. A fund of $20,000 was given by him to Phillips Academy for the purpose of founding scholarships for the support of the poorer students...
There has been of late a feeling among the university professors that the best interests of the leading professions cannot be advanced by men who are obliged to devote part of their time to "match peddling," and to such occupations as telegraph messengers, "itinerant musicians," etc. They can really accomplish very little, and their beggary brings into disrepute the professions they are studying. This state of things on its sober side is indeed a pitiable one. Thousands of almost absolute paupers, men of the most ordinary attainments and without a suitable early education at home, come up every year from...
...observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly desired. As Franklin said: "Keep pegging away;" thus only is it possible to cast off a custom which must needs seem to all sober-minded men a disgrace to our college, binding on us as it does material observance of spiritual things...