Word: foresight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THOSE who have taken Phil. 1, and have experienced the difficulties attending the study of Maie-branche, will appreciate the kindness and foresight of Mr. Palmer in preparing and printing for the use of members of the elective his marginal notes on the "Entretiens...
...come to such a pass that we find ourselves confronted every four weeks or so with three, four, five, or more examinations crowded into one week, it would seem that the pretty cub has already developed into a monster whose insatiable appetite threatens us all with destruction. With prophetic foresight I contemplate in horror the consequences of its continuance among us; I see a time, not far off, when the boldest student will have fled; when these fair halls will be the home of desolation, and the recitation-rooms of University know no occupants but the ghosts of the dead...
...Union chose magenta." A glance at the history of the time would have shown that the battle which gave its name to the color in question was not fought until June, 1859. If Union College chose the color two years earlier, she must have been endowed with a prophetic foresight truly miraculous in the Protestant Christendom of the nineteenth century...
...delay was partly due to the committee. The crews were to have come to the starting-post upon the firing of a cannon, but the committee, with a foresight quite characteristic of that body of Solons, had forgotten to procure a cannon. Much time was consequently wasted in waiting for the referee's steamer to go and notify the various crews that the time had come. Slowly the boats were seen to push out from their boat-houses and draw up to their positions. Then came more delay in arrangement, and after much backing and changing they were held...
...McCosh has also heard a rumor that morning prayers are to be discontinued at Harvard, and says: "If the Congregational churches in Massachusetts have the foresight and energy which I believe them to have, they will not allow a month to be passed without deliberation to be followed by action. If a college declares that it cannot do the work (the religious training of the students), surely the churches of Christ must undertake it for the youth of their own denominations...