Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...revival is prompt. This makes a good memory and is the object we are striving for. Attention governs all and it is defective attention that causes defective memories. Out of ten hours of ordinary study one really concentrates one's mind but half the time. Attention is naturally weak; strengthen it, is the best advice one can give. No power is more easily destroyed, no power may be more highly developed than that of attention...
Certain measures are being considered for further extension of the number of scholarships and fellowships, in order to strengthen Yale's hold upon the smaller Western colleges, and to enlarge the means for higher professional education of teachers...
Professor Lovering was one of the men to whom Harvard must attribute much of her high fame gained in the middle years of the present century. Those were the years in which the beginnings of true scientific investigation were being made in America. To strengthen these first feeble efforts Professor Lovering brought all the powers of a far-reaching mind and a noble zeal. In this, his work, he brought strongly to the front the name of Harvard which he helped to identify with all that was best in educational and scientific advance in this country...
...would create a multitude of private interests and friendships, which would not be lost sight of or ignored whatever the course of politics might be. It would keep the feeling of kinship among those who speak the same language and have inherited the same customs. It would strengthen that healthy liking of out-door sports, which the British have alone maintained in Europe since the Greeks degenerated. It would symbolize also to some extent that great ideal of the training of a nation, the harmonious discipline of the body and of the mind...
...strong sense of His presence is a very great help. A consciousness that we have the greatest power that there is with us, wherever we are, will always help us in our temptations and comfort us in our trials. Our greatest work here is to develope and strengthen our characters and here again we find that to know that we have a strong defence gives us courage just in proportion as we fell His presence...