Word: creation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nurture, discipline, and inspiration of men destined to devote their whole future to scholarship, science, philosophy, criticism, or art, and of students laying serious foundations of lifelong culture,- the leaders in the coming generation in the search for new knowledge, the establishment of new standards, and the creation of new intellectual forms...
...creation of the Graduate School is the complement and neccessary outcome of the elective system; and the first movement in the direction of systematic instruction for graduates was made by President Eliot in the very first weeks after his accession to office. The Faculty bear their testimony to the strong and steady faith with which the President has supported the Graduate School from the beginning, through its long years of insignificance and of apparent failure to justify the aspirations with which it was founded; and congratulate him on the result, which now makes that School one of the most important...
...deprecate the spirit which manifests itself in a shrug of the shoulders and an expression of indifference as to the fate of the nine. It is not manly. No pluckier thing has been done in Harvard athletics for many a year than the creation of this year's nine out of the material afforded. There has been an honest effort to make the best out of unfavorable circumstances and to represent the University in creditable fashion at least. This has been done, and we feel that there is occasion rather to thank Captain Wiggin and his men for what they...
...William Wordsworth, might for him have almost filled the place of a liberal education; but they elevate, teach and above all console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem...
...organization, to be known as "The Officers' Fund Association," was formed during the recess by the faculty and other officers of the University, which cannot fail to be of great benefit to University interests. Its constitution provides for the creation of a fund from which necessary aid may be rendered to the family of any officer of the University who may die while in service or after retirement, or who may be disabled by sickness or other misfortune...