Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Huntington said: The finest scholars, after taking a few steps in the course of their researches, always find themselves confronted by an impassible wall. They reach the end of human knowledge and feel the littleness of it. In such cases it is necessary to look higher, to have faith in the infinite wisdom...
...following program for the trip has been arranged for the clubs: They will start from Boston Monday evening, December 22, at eleven o'clock on the Boston and Albany road. Taking breakfast at Syracuse, dinner at Buffalo, and supper at Detroit, they will reach Chicago on Wednesday morning. They will stay at the Auditorium Hotel. The concert in Chicago will be Thursday evening...
Friday morning by the 1. and C. R. R. the clubs will leave Chicago, and, taking dinner at Champague, I I., will reach St. Louis early in the evening where they will stop at the Southern Hotel. The concert here will be given Saturday evening. Sunday morning the three organizations will start for Cincinnati, arriving there early in the evening. The Bennett House will be their hotel there. The concert will be given Monday night...
Whoever took charge of the petition that registration be omitted after the Christmas recess, did it very awkwardly. A small list of about two hundred names was given to the Faculty, but the larger petition did not reach them until too late for consideration. Naturally, the small petition was not granted. There is, however, still a chance left to get what we want, if a note stating the fact that a mistake was made, and begging that the vote be reconsidered, is presented, along with the greater petition, to the Faculty at the regular meeting next Tuesday. Petitions received before...
...there came to be one chief God not superior to all the others, but, so to speak, chief among equals. This chief God was Varuna, the enveloper of heaven and sea. The conception of this great enveloper was very beautiful. Dr. Everett read a hymn to Varuna which almost reached the lofty idea of monotheism. But the worship of Varuna gave place to that of Indra, the God of thunder showers. Here again the religion rose to the verge of monotheism but did not quite fully reach...