Word: processes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...weaknesses) and Lessing, and among living men Carlyle and Emerson, are examples of the same thing. This need not and does not, you will observe, imply any absolute originality, if indeed there be such a thing. Freedom of thought is deeply indebted to Voltaire, and German unity, the process of which is going on under our very eyes, one of the most important and far-reaching events of the century, may be traced
...before you try to part with, to minimize, or to forego in any way your own individuality. Study it without being egotistic, and understanding the weak places, shun their temptations and try to protect yourself by added strength. Knowing yourself, you may learn to know others; and so in process of time you will both consciously and unconsciously learn those abiding principles of human nature and of human character which add to the knowledge and the progress of the world...
President Low, in presenting his report, refers to the steps by which the college has passed from the condition in which it consisted of a number of unrelated shools, into a well-organized university, having a common life which animates every part. This process involved the absorption of the College of Physicians and Surgeons as the medical school of the university and the creation of two schools of Philosophy and Pure Science to conduct the advanced work in philosophy, philology, and letters, and in mathematics and natural science...
...policy of extending the influence of the college and enlarging the privileges of the students by the process of affiliating with existing institutions has been continued during the year by the agreement entered into with the Teachers' College, by which the schools of the latter college are at the service of the students of Columbia for observation and practice, and the courses of instruction to teachers are also open to them...
...nature are green and brown, and hence most insects are of one or the other of these two colors. It has been a question whether the color of insects was derived directly from the coloring matter of their vegetable food, or whether it was due to some peculiar process which had nothing to do with the color of food. Experiments made upon larvae with food material of different colors has shown conclusively that the color of the insect is affected by the color of its food...