Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...like cricket, which must be played for years in a place where it has been previously unknown, before a high standard of play can be reached. In our opinion, the cricketers have thus far done more than was to be expected of them, and the time is not far distant, we believe, when the Harvard team may dispute the claim of the Longwoods to be the best eleven in the State...
...Princeton University" cannot be far distant now that, in accordance with Dr. McCosh's suggestion, a department of philosophy is soon to be established, with him at its head. There are to be four or five other professors in the new school. The presidency of Princeton is the prize now awaiting some first-class scholar and educator. - [Transcript...
...spite of the efforts of the Harvard corporation to cosmopolitanize the university by holding examinations for entrance in Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and at other distant points, it still remains true that the majority of the students are residents of Massachusetts. New York, the West, and particularly the Northwest, send large delegations, while the Pacific coast has a very large proportional representation. - [N. Y. Times...
...only threatened with a universal era of co-education, but in the opinion of the president of Boston University, as expressed in his recent annual report, a still greater reform is in store for us. The time is not far distant, President Warren thinks, when women equally with men will be called to fill the professorships in our great universities, and indeed will come to supersede men as teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless...
...principle of compulsory attendance is made to apply in some cases while in others it is altogether evaded? Why are those who live in or near Boston and who reside at home excused from attendance at church and in most cases from chapel, while those who come from more distant quarters, whatever may be the expressed wishes of themselves and their parents in the matter, are compelled to attend chapel and church without exception? Is there a double principle, conveniently elastic, which is made to fit the two cases, and is there a fundamental distinction between students dwelling...