Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with its fallible infallibility, into which college methods often return after spasmodic attempts toward a better system, has, it seems to me, been a great curse to this country. College students, removed from the associations through which they would naturally develop into political activity, are subjected, just as they approach the age of political responsibility, to a system of paternal government which, by practically assuming all the responsibility itself, destroys the sense of individual responsibility. While, on the one side, our colleges have trained numbers of men to enter usefully into public life, they must, on the other, be arraigned...
...account of the near approach of the examination time, we wish to again refer to a customary violation of rules which we have already mention in a former issue. Playing on a musical instrument out of hours, or other than very sparingly in hours, is, when examinations are at hand, a most annoying disturbance to those at work. Unfortunately there is no law by which it is prohibited then, and the college is consequently thrown entirely on the mercy of those possessing such instruments. We trust that all those who play will see the necessity of both care and forbearance...
...unusual number of rooms lighted up now in the evening are a sure indication of the approach of the examinations...
...great hatred of impostors of every kind, and it was not very safe for any such to approach him. A man recently called on him with some manuscripts, professing to be autographs of some of the early Fathers of the church. He exposed the pretensions of several without losing his composure; but when at last the original manuscript of the Athanasian Creed, in the writing of St. Athanasius (!), was produced, he called his visitor's attention to a large club in the corner of the room, and pointed significantly towards the door, by which the terrified man made his escape...
...undergraduates who were fined ten pounds may congratulate themselves that they were not Parisian students in the Latin Quarter, or German students at Heid-lberg. In any country but England, their piece of sportiveness would have been atoned for in that kind of seclusion which is the nearest modern approach to the old monastic life...