Word: confrontative
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...lately been brought to our notice that several instructors have found it in their hearts to confront the members of their courses with hour examinations to be held a few days before the mid-years begin. Such acts are inscrutable and therefore are very hard to deal with, but it does seem as if an hour examination thrust upon the already overburdened students at this season of the year ought not to pass by without incurring a protest. Hour examinations at best are very unsatisfactory performances for they require almost as much examination cramming as three hour examinations and count...
Surely, my friends, surely there is nothing in the greatest office which the American people can confer, which should make your president necessarily mean, sordid, selfish, ambitious and untrustworthy. On the contrary, the solemn duties which confront him tend to a sacred sense of responsibility. The trust of the American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake...
...present, too, a spirit of organization. As Tennyson says; "The individual withers, and the whole is more and more." The presence of this spirit makes the difference between our own times and those of our fathers. Combinations of capital were the first to arise. Those of labor now confront them. The two must be harmonized, and the railroad will have a great share in doing...
...long time, I wished to confront Miss Ffrench. I no longer have that desire. If by any possibility I could come face to face with her, I should forego the pleasure; for I should certainly detect the mechanical apparatus of her existence. Detection would be death to her, and my conscience would then charge me with murder; for, though she is not life, Miss Ffrench is wonderfully life-like. - Vassar Miscellany...