Word: absorber
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Scientific training as pursued in graduate departments of American universities has shown a general tendency to absorb a part of the student's time in college by dictating certain courses which must be passed before the more advanced work of the professional schools can be taken up. Undoubtedly students whose college life is thus narrowed by early specialization lose some of the broadening influence which it is the function of the college to impart. Carried to its extreme this demand by scientific schools for students who are at entrance already well grounded in their special subjects might defeat altogether...
...education and recreation, to public baths, libraries, etc., it is bound to be costly and it is doubtful if the most economical administration would substantially reduce the City's annual budget as the demand for public improvements growing out of the awakened appreciation of their social value would probably absorb all the saving. It is most probable that for a long time to come public spirit will cheerfully carry the present burden of taxation if the expenditure only reaches its destination undiminished by graft and the incapacity of officials. We must remember that the modern treatment of established theories...
...highly serviceable training. It is therefore possible to find more than congenial evenings and an engraved shingle or a dandy hatband in our College activities. Leaving side the obligation a man assumes in accepting an office, he owes to himself the duty of obtaining whatever business training he can absorb from his office and by so doing proves the oft repeated saying that the knowledge we receive in college from our books is but a small factor in the general education that college offers to the man who is ready to profit by every opportunity...
Both Turkey and Great Britain are trying to absorb independent Arabia and the Bedoin tribes. Turkey at the same time is killing Arabian commerce by her misrule, and high tariff. Her power, however, will probably be overthrown in the near future by a general revolt of the Arabian tribes. The whole future of Arabia rests on the question whether or not she will exchange her present religion for Christianity. English and American missionaries are trying to solve this problem, and if they continue to equal the splendid devotion of the pioneers in the work, they will undoubtedly solve the problem...
...Verschleierte Bild zu Sais" is the story of a youth who, desirous of knowledge, goes to Sais to absorb the learning of the Egyptians. The priests take him to a picture of Truth, covered by a veil which has never been lifted. At night the youth lifts the veil. What he sees is never told. All he says is, "Pity those who reach truth through some transgression; it will never be a pleasure to them...