Word: surmount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hoped therefore that some means may be found to surmount this difficulty, but after all it is a mere matter of detail. The important point is that the undergraduates want a University Club, and are prepared to do what they can under the guidance of the graduates to get it. It will take time and hard work. Therefore the sooner a beginning be made the better. This particular sum would be a good nest egg, but the money can be obtained from some other source, if all concerned will really get down to work...
...sermon told that we should do what we ought to do immediately and thoroughly, and that we should surmount all stumbling stones and use them as aids instead of obstacles...
...Peabody spoke last night on our coming obstacles, physical, mental and moral. There are thres ways of dealing with an obstacle; to struggle with it unsuccessfully, to crawl around it meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human...