Word: detachedness
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Grant was now eager to take the initiative. But Bragg was blind to the change in affairs and detached a strong force to attack Burnside in Knoxville.
In the same way, when a man has been reformed from a life of evil, his first impulse is to seek a new and more congenial environment. His noblest course, however, is to stay where he is and to build up a new existence for himself. Christ detached from himself...
The laboratory of Physical Geography has lately received a set of geographic models designed by Professor Albert Heim of Zurich, Switzerland. They represent an Alpine glacier, a mountain torrent, a bold coast line with branches and dunes, and a volcanic island of complex structure. Each model is about a foot...
Besides the present buildings, the plan embraces reservations for extensive additional building sites for a university church, a memorial arch, buildings for the industrial department now under construction, libraries and museums, a botanic garden, four districts laid out in building lots suitable for detached dwellings and domestic gardens, with public...
"The University of Michigan," says President Haven in his inaugural address, "is the oldest, largest and most flourishing of the class of institutions that may rightly be regarded as State universities." This statement was true for America in 1863, and is true to-day. In its origin, the University of...