Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result of attempting to divide the classes into companies or of making any pretence of marching in military style. It is a certainty, however, that, as the evening progresses the maneuvers will become more and more complicated, so that the final condition of the column will be as chaotic as the most conservative could wish. At any rate, let us all take hold with a will, irrespective of our political creeds, and make this demonstration a complete success. It is the last chance most of us will have of marching in the Harvard brigade, and we have but ourselves...
...passively by while the faculty act, they must bestir themselves. We should be happy to take notice of any feasible plan which anyone may wish to propose to the college through our columns and will endeavor to further any plaus which may suggest remedies for the present chaotic state into which the subject of faculty supervision seems to have fallen just at present...
...Broad education" and "specialism" are both good in their respective ways: without the former, the world would be a chaotic mass of egotism; without the latter, progress would be dead. Young men coming to Harvard should be allowed to choose for themselves whether to continue their general education, or to launch at once into some one branch of study. The ranking system should place no premium on either plan; an unbiased choice should be allowed, free from all unworthy motives...
...very instructive and interesting discourse was delivered by Prof. Von Holst last evening in Sanders Theatre on "Parlementarismus" in Germany. The failure of Germany to play a leading part in the politics of the world has been in a great measure due to the somewhat chaotic condition of her own political system. The saying, "Place Germany in the saddle and she can ride" is theoretically true, but the exertions of Bismarck and others of her leading statesmen to do so, has not been such as to wholly justify the assertion. That such is the state of affairs is no doubt...
...whispered Tue passionately, and fled. Her brain was in a tumult. Joy, passion, hope, foreboding, were mingled in a chaotic mass of thought. But as she approached her father's hut she could think more clearly. What had she done? She had expressed her preference for a mere stranger; one of whose very name she was ignorant. In vain she assured herself that his conduct at the glen proved him good and noble. "A single act is no basis for determining character," her judgment replied; "it may be quite in keeping with the actor's character; it may be merely...