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Word: approaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1890
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...neutral in effeet. The author is without either fellow-feeling for, or hostility against his subject. Thus the article must be utterly unsatistactory to those who are so unfortunate as to experrence De Senancour's sorrowful mysticism and inactive melancholy, while it fails to attract those who approach Obermann as students of literature, and seek to know what others have thought of him. Mr. Lovett's article appears to lack spontaneity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 12/8/1890 | See Source »

...Department. The providing for such facilities for students is a great advance over the present insufficient accommodations for departmental libraries existing in Sever. The sooner money is available, through the generosity of benefactors of the college, for the fitting up of similar headquarters for each department, the nearer the approach will be toward the satisfaction of professors' and students' needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classical and History Departments. | 11/15/1890 | See Source »

...arising who are reformers of, and superior to, the masses around them. They were eloquent teachers but in all of them we see mere gropers after the divine, until the greatest Prophet of all comes, Jesus Christ. The wise reformers who came before him proclaimed the nearer and nearer approach of the Great Light. At last it came, and the blackness of death was illuminated. Buddha taught a brotherhood and equality but only in misery; Christ teaches an equality in the inheritance of Divine Love. Into His life Christ condensed the Light which was to guide mortals forever; from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudleian Lecture | 10/24/1890 | See Source »

...nearest approach to one of the famous war articles is the account of an escape from Dixie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The October Century. | 10/6/1890 | See Source »

...will have a safe place in which to keep ammunition, cleaning tools, etc. When this is done the house will be as well arranged and as comfortable as any of its kind around Boston. Two bridges have been placed across the creeks leading to the house, so that the approach is now perfectly dry and easy. The house is only from twelve to fifteen minutes' walk from Harvard square, which makes the present range much more suitable than the one at Watertown, as men will not be obliged to take a whole afternoon for an hour's practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Shooting Club House. | 3/18/1890 | See Source »

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