Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vacation may by heedlessness become a disadvantage. It should be clearly born in mind that but four weeks now remain before the final examinations, and that there are more outside distractions in these weeks than at any other time of the year. The temptation to cut lectures and generally abandon one's study for out door amusements is strong. If a man doesn't combat this influence the four weeks will seem like four days, and he will find himself wholly unprepared. He will be inclined to put the blame on the late vacation, but the fault will generally...
...canal.- (1) The only possible advantage not to be gained from a neutral canal would be its control in case of war.- (2) The United States could not maintain this control in case of war: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., 1896).- (e) It would force the United States to abandon her long settled foreign policy.- (1) It would tend to embroil her in disputes with European nations.- (x) They would not submit to our arbitrary interference in assuming exclusive control of an inter-oceanic water-way.- (y) The Suez Canal has set the precedent for the neutrality of such...
...They desire to become strong in a few days, and so they try to lift heavy iron bells and perform feats upon the parallel and horizontal bars. The result of such a method of training naturally is that these men find themselves growing weaker instead of stronger and finally abandon gymnasium work altogether...
...engineering, sanitary engineering, electrical engineering, metallurgy, geology and paleontology, analytical and applied chemistry and architecture. At the beginning of the first year, each student shall elect which of the eight courses above mentioned he intends to pursue, and after having made his selection he shall not be permitted to abandon the courses chosen in order to take up another without the consent of the president and the dean...
...changes the outside world nor takes it away; it merely changes a man's relations with that outside world. A new sense of the value of opportunities comes to the man who sees his duty to the world in its true light. Jesus does not really ask men to abandon their possessions; he rather wishes them to abandon themselves to God so that God may give himselt to them...