Word: distant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Foot ball Eleven, while in Montreal, were, through the courtesy of the McGill Club, witnesses of many pleasing sights. Among these, none was more interesting than the fox-hunt at Verdun, a place five miles distant from the city, and just above the Lachine Rapids. All preparations had been made the previous evening, and Saturday morning found us on our way to the place appointed for the meeting. The ride along the bank of the St. Lawrence was very delightful, and we reached the Manor-house in time to form in the line of carriages starting for the woods...
...speaking of life, he compares the "tendency of our society towards individualization," "based upon what may be called the arithmetical view of life, that regards society as made up of units, any one of which is equal to any other," with the patriarchal state that existed among our distant Aryan forefathers. In the latter, each individual found a place allotted him which he was expected to fill with fidelity and loyalty, and in which, "while true to his position, each had his function and his support." In the society of our day much greater energy is called forth...
...yard, complains to us of the noises that disturb the college precincts sometimes till mid-night; and we heartily concur with him in longing for a cessation of the various shouts, cat-calls, snatches of popular melodies, the repetition of men's names in loudest tones from distant buildings, and, not the least annoying, the stupid explosion of gunpowder in different forms. Work on examinations and late hours set the nerves of all of us on the stretch, and interruptions such as the above, although at other times harmless, become horribly annoying. Blue lights are very pretty, and bonfires mildly...
...glanced towards the distant shore...
...pursue classical studies, he is obliged to begin his course of study at an age when those who at the outset embraced secondary instruction have accomplished nearly the half of their course. The second inconvenience of this system affects the teachers of primary schools, who, not having any distant perspective before them, or the hope of any advancement, lack that most powerful stimulant, personal ambition, and become either dull or discouraged...