Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...understanding, seeks to give ideal expression to those abiding realities of the spiritual world for which the outward and visible world serves at best but as the husk and symbol. Am I wrong in using the word realities? wrong in insisting on the distinction between the real and the actual? in assuming for the ideal an existence as absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks to us through...
...clock. The question is: "Resolved, That members of Cabinets should be given full membership in the House of Representatives." H. A. Cutler '94, will preside, and the judges will be Professor Le Baron R. Briggs, Assistant Professor Edward Cummings, and Mr. J. J. Hayes. In the actual debate with Yale, Harvard will have the negative side of the question; but this evening a candidate may take either side he wishes. The trial is open to all members of the University...
...rather as a civic function than as the ruling influence in life. Her inhabitants were too proud and self-minded to consider anything seriously but their own prosperity and elevation. The paintings of Venice were not therefore intended to instruct in the gospel, but were rather representative of the actual city life, which was material and majestic. Commerce was what built up the city and maintained it in luxury, and on the whole it is natural that its art should show a development cerresponding to its surroundings...
...glance at the actual figures shows how ridiculous is the rumor, and how unfounded are the complaints to which it has given rise. Four years ago, before there was any Administrative Board, thirty-nine freshmen were dropped at the close of the year; three years ago, when the Administrative Board first came into being, twenty-eight men were dropped; two years ago, there were twenty men dropped; and, last year, twenty-nine. That is to say, out of all the men rated as freshmen at the close of the year, only twenty-nine were debarred from returning to college...