Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...life can be without sacrifice, if he is to accomplish anything. Through Jesus, sacrifice was made noble. It is what knits man to God: the Divine in human life...
...crew competes with representatives of other colleges, and should be considered as second only to the 'varsity. Last year the freshman crew had their regular coach before they went on the water, and why has nothing been done about it this year? If the freshman crew is going to accomplish anything this year, it is time that they should begin to be taught by an experienced man, and not left so much to their own devices...
With regard to Burns's place in literature, Mr. Copeland thought it profitable-instead of dwelling, as so many critics have done, upon what Burns did not accomplish in poetry-to note and cherish what he did accomplish. This divides itself easily into two classes-first such remarkable geure pictures of the life of the people as "The Jolly Beggars," "Halloween," and a dozen other vigorous examples; and second those keen, sweet songs in which the passions of patriotism, of drink, above all of love, are expressed with a perfectness and a concentration unequalled in modern literature...
...adoption here would be generally deplored, but as it is a decided improvement over the present Yale methods, its use would certainly bear good results. Something definite should certainly be done here to stamp out that form of dishonesty so often seen, and an improvement in general opinion would accomplish this far better than prescribed rules. A series of extempore debates between junior eating clubs has been brought to a successful finish and others similar will probably follow...
...remedies for the present financial difficulties may be divided into two kinds, proximate and ultimate. The only proximate remedy is to get rid of some of the excess of currency. The best way in which to accomplish this would be to destroy the treasury notes of 1890. Something of this sort is going on, in fact. The U. S. treasury has begun to accumulate these notes and to store them away in vaults If the government had had a surplus revenue in 1893 and 1895 the solution of their difficulties would have been simple enough; for, after redeeming legal tender...