Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more we serve God, the more sublime and mysterious He becomes and the more we discover the significance of our reverence. The man who forgets himself in his work, who does not waste his energy by dividing his thoughts between himself and his work and who does not banish all truth from his toil by dreams of paltry fame-this man finds himself at length possessed by God and wins from his own obedience the unsought, unexpected success. With this self-renunciation, with this active obedience is joined reverence, and we behold the man rising almost to the level...
...present Senior members of Bones there had grown up during Junior year a strong feeling that 'poppycock' ought to go. Some of them told their intimate friends during the week before they were initiated into the Society that if they could bring it about after their initiation they would banish 'poppycock' forever. This displacement of the pins from the neckties is looked upon by collegians generally as the first stepin this direction.- N. Y. Evening Post...
...advantages of theoretical training are incalcuable. Experience with practical situations has shown the need of the study of statistical science as a theory, giving one thereby the ability to use the facts which he has discovered. However the word theory misleads the public. It would be better to banish its use in connection this science. The statistician should have the power to foresee the analysis which facts stimulate. He should comprehend the complete report before he makes up the details. The best way in way in which this object can be obtained is through scientific study and training. The teaching...
...said that the excitement attendant on these sports distracts from study. it is true that the contests do furnish excitement for the students, but it is excitement of a healthy kind. Athletic sports do not divert so many from study as the theatre and billiards. Banish athletics, and you increase the attendance at the theatres and the saloons, where the temptations are greater, and the excitements less healthy than those of the ball-field and boatrace...
...committee of the French Chamber of Deputies have voted to banish the princes...