Word: chasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good, and adds, perhaps, to the sum of happiness." While "the ideals to be derived from Christianity are completely inconsistent with those which political economy emphasizes," yet we "can only adjust ourselves to these inconsistencies to the best of our ability." The writer has dug for himself a deeper chasm than that which exists "between science and religion, which nobody has yet succeeded in bridging" - oh! - and in trying to leap it, has brought up in the depths between the two sides, from which he can climb up neither. Christianity itself recognizes the impossibility of any such bridge...
...become so jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned, and there bustled out of the chasm, with a roar from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld and Stoughton and Holworthy and Grays, rushed the frightened students. They stopped not to admire the classic features...
...read and remembered by every student. He is the first man who has plainly and publicly pointed out what keen observers have long known, viz., that students and professors look at athletics from totally different standpoints; that these two views are wholly irreconcilable; that between them is a chasm which affords no tenable middle ground; that the students are unwisely stubborn in support of their own ideas; and that this obstinacy will, sooner or later; drive the strong arm of authority to attain, by harsh action, what might have been effected by timely concession and compromise...
...tone and determined the character of the lower. The elementary schools in Germany were the best in the world, for the reason that they were the open doors to the real and burgher schools and the gymnasia. Primary schools in England have been a by-word because the chasm between the great endowed schools, colleges, and universities and the places for the instruction of the poor was as wide as that between Lazarus and Dives. Huxley had said that no system of public education was worthy the name unless it created a great educational ladder, with...
...written love to bridge the chasm...