Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field. Whether a man intends to be a geologist or an engineer he should, during at least two of his summers, devote his time to actual practice. A man who has had no practical work in geology often finds difficulty in applying his knowledge to the problems which may confront him in his work. A geologist should have a fair knowledge of chemistry, but ability to make qualitative analysis is not necessary...
...Christianity could take root. The peculiar enthusiasm of his own generation, the speaker said, was rather political or purely intellectual than religions. Of this, war and the doctrine of evolution were the great causes. But with the coming generation there is to be a change. The problems which will confront them will be human problems, and because intensely human therefore divine. Christianity is now developing, instead of the martyr or the reformer, the man who will use the world for his own large, true, Christian ends. The forces at present at work on young life are a craving for serious...
Life is like one great gymnasium where our various faculties are to be developed. However, more than athletes, we have enemies to confront, pain to bear, and burdens to lift. The soul is the one object which we own, and the rest is only secondary. The world exists that the divine company of human souls may rise and rise in strength. Those who subscribe to this view possess the best culture, and those who are true to this principal are cultured and none others. Culture is not in the possession of things mental and material, but the way in which...
...lately been brought to our notice that several instructors have found it in their hearts to confront the members of their courses with hour examinations to be held a few days before the mid-years begin. Such acts are inscrutable and therefore are very hard to deal with, but it does seem as if an hour examination thrust upon the already overburdened students at this season of the year ought not to pass by without incurring a protest. Hour examinations at best are very unsatisfactory performances for they require almost as much examination cramming as three hour examinations and count...
Surely, my friends, surely there is nothing in the greatest office which the American people can confer, which should make your president necessarily mean, sordid, selfish, ambitious and untrustworthy. On the contrary, the solemn duties which confront him tend to a sacred sense of responsibility. The trust of the American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake...