Word: coping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contemplating journalism as a profession. Littell does not hesitate to say that journalism is not "hospitable," and that it is not the realm of the pioneer or the originator, but he does insist that by certain forms of practice, the undergraduate may fit himself the better to cope with the difficulties which will beset him in his first necessary duties...
...Lectures on English Literature.The subjects and dates of Mr. Cope-land's lectures, so far as announced, are as follows...
...people are fully able to cope with emergencies. - (a) They have already done so. - (1) Secession. - (2) Slavery. - (3) Chicago Anarchists: J. E. Gary in Century XIV, 803 (Apr. 1893) - (b) They are doing so today. - (1) Movement toward restricted immigration. - (2) Scientific charity. - (2) Civil Service. - (4) Universal education: W. L. Wilson's Boston Lecture, Nov. 12, 1894. - (5) Ballot Reform. - (6) Social reform. - (7) Overthrow of Tammany...
...active interest in the branches of study discussed in the clubs of the departments and schools; subjects of debate would be sufficiently varied to suit all; membership in the highest club would be esteemed a mark of distinction; and especially would we have a strong, concentrated system, able to cope in intellectuality and oratory with any college debating association in the world...
...said that the civilization of the present is infinitely better than that of two thousand years ago, and men are willing to grant that this fact is largely due to the teaching of Christ. But people are often in doubt as to whether Christianity can cope with the problems of today. Sometimes it seems as if the world was not growing better,- as if the problems were growing more complicated and the spirit of Christianity could not be the force to meet them. It this were so we should have to grant that the spirit of Christ had been...