Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think that the new regulation is at all in conflict with the rights that the faculty has always reserved for itself, but still it is a tacit recognition of the fact that the high ideal set by Harvard has proved to be unattainable in America, at least under existing circumstances...
...also to some extent the growth of a moral ideal which gives a stronger life to the movement. The moral ideal at the basis of socialism is the ideal of society as an organized whole, whose interests are not identical with the mere aggregate of the individual interests. The conflict between this and the other, (the utilitarian ideal) was then outlined and the problem was prepared for further discussion at the next time. The next lecture will deal especially with the conflict between socialism and utilitarianism as moral ideas...
...perhaps into the yard. It may be urged that its use for lighting the yard would bring the quiet retirement of the latter into the rude glare of publicity. The still air of delightful studies would be tainted with this poison. Perhaps this may be true; yet the irrepressible conflict between the electric light and the midnight oil is not to be avoided even at Harvard. The use of this light in the library certainly is not open to this objection...
...sending strong columns to his own right to check Lee's advance and expected at ack. (2) By a counter flank attack against Jackson. (3) By a direct attack on Richmond itself. McClellan, however, did none of these things, but instead changed his base and brought on the conflict of Gaines Mill. Porter is stationed at Gaines Mill with twenty thousand men, against him are hurled the overwhelming masses of A. P. Hill's. Jackson's and Longstreet's divisions in a desperate attempt to flank McClellan. The attempt is only partially successful and results in great loss to both...
...Arnold's writings has probably been stronger at Harvard than the writings of any other living Englishman, and yet at this critical moment of Harvard's history we seem to have forgotten the moral of all his teachings. At no time and in no place has the conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present moment and in Cambridge. If "sweetness and light," if the power of "seeing this as they really are" is at present the great need of England, how much more are these things lacking in America, in the land...