Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nothing but emptiness and folly. The trouble with him was that he mistook the means for the end, he regarded the temporary things of the world, such as houses and fine clothes, as all that can be found here; but Paul has found something more, something abiding forever, which cannot pass away. First he places faith. At once we are inclined to say this is not anything abiding or even anything real. Science, we say, recognizes no such thing as faith. But there we are wrong. The basis of all science is faith,- a trust in the natural laws, that...
...number of students taking elementary courses in the laboratory being thus limited, cannot be taken as a fair measure of the success of the institution. The true success lies in the number of well trained teachers and investigators sent forth, and in this direction the results have been very satisfactory. During the past three years the laboratory has supplied to other institutions one professor, one assistant professor, and two instructors in physics. In the past year, moreover, two graduate students have gone into the practical applications of physical science; and these well trained men can extend the influence of this...
...cannot get his oar down and rushes down his slide...
...river. Mr. Geo. Weld kindly contributed the money to have the float thoroughly repaired, so that hereafter it will not be submerged at low tide. We have, during the past week, been trying to get a building mover to put it in; we may succeed yet, but if it cannot be moved on rollers, it will surely be put in on the high tide of March...
...name of the purchaser has been kept; the committee know exactly who should be in the different seats, and all suspicious cases will be investigated. The fact that there are some men who will stoop to make money by deliberately perverting the whole purpose of such an affair, cannot be spoken of by the ordinary man with anything but the strongest terms of denunciation. Such men, if there be such, are unworthy to have even an existence at Harvard. In the second place, it ought to be clearly recognized that any disorder on such an occasion would do Harvard...