Word: among
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...basic purpose of these insignia is to increase the number of a man's friends among his fellow classmen. The last part of the career of a class is certainly the most difficult of all times to attempt to widen a man's acquaintance artificially. At best, it can only result in a bowing acquaintance with a score or so of men who you had no idea were members of your class. Moreover, a class has become definitely sifted into groups by Senior year. A man's friends are made and he will inevitably move more or less completely...
...fact that this group is of a race which the author forgets to name is simply because the 17th of March happened to be the most timely holiday to portray. If the issue had come next month, the "27th of April" would have done, being observed as a holiday among the Madagascans...
Civilization is in the grasp of an anarchy, greater than has been generally perceived because of the orthodoxy of the unthinking masses. But among trained philosophers there is intellectual chaos. There is no one voice sufficiently authoritative to carry with it any conviction beyond a personal preference. The tendency is growing, not to deny God, but to neglect His influence in daily life...
...honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa was founded during the Revolutionary War, at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, for the purpose of recognizing scholarship and character. A few years later, the second chapter was established at Harvard. Among the men who have won election to this chapter are John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Summer, Thomas Went worth Higginson, John Davis Long, Charles William Eliot, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, and Theodore Roosevelt...
...Faraday Lecture is an address given under the auspices of the London Chemical Society about once every six years. It is accounted the most important event of chemical science in England. Among the famous chemists who have been Faraday Lecturers in the past may be mentioned Helmholz, Ostwald, and Fischer...