Word: distant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...substance that those who support it wish to have no change in the nature of the Annex until it may be incorporated as a department of Harvard University, and that they much prefer to receive the certificate now given until such a time shall come, no matter how far distant...
...many of the students and to the public in general. It has been undeniably true in past years that, while Yale has had fewer students than Harvard, her students have yet represented more states and a larger proportion than at Harvard have come from sections of the country distant from the university. A careful study of the figures, which are taken from the Yale Banner and the Harvard Catalogue, proves beyond question that this year the conditions are exactly reversed. Dividing the country, as we have done for convenience, into four sections, the figures show that in every section Harvard...
...ancient astronomers came to the general idea of the spherical shape of the earth for they observed that as one travelled north or south he found that the position of the pole in regard to the position of the zenith changed. If one travelled south, the pole became farther distant from the zenith, and if north, it became nearer. This then took place either because the earth was round or the pole was an object so near that it might be passed and left behind. But the ancients observed that the stars were very far distant and therefore arrived...
After all, then, the text is not a mere rhetorical paradox, though its maxim is even now regarded as a distant ideal, impracticable at present. Even in the church the largest purse secures the best pew. Not many years ago John Ruskin spoke in bitter words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible...
This step is in many ways advisable The duties of a manager of a college team have increased so much during the last few years that the time is not far distant when it will be expedient, if not necessary, for the larger colleges at least, to have a man of experience and mature judgment to look out for the interests of the athletic teams. His duties might include the entire management of the team or only that part which pertained to financial maters. Which of these two courses would be the wiser to pursue, each college would have...