Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same general lines are followed out as in the national parliament, and the daily doings are closely scanned, and a clear knowledge gained of the drift of politics, so that when elections come the situation is grasped with acuteness and intelligence that finds no equal the world over...
...less rapidly in all countries in which it does exist. All civilized societies in our day tend to the commercial type, and more and more adopt the commercial standards and tests. Consequently we see no chance of introducing it here, and, though it is everybody's duty not to drift idly with the current, it is sheer waste of strength to try and row dead against it. The people, or perhaps we should rather say the farmers of the United States, who are not used to handling or spending large sums of money, have been making a gallant effort daring...
...revolutionary innovation and even withdraw from some of the positions already taken, or else Yale must abandon her cautious conservatism and stand abreast of her venturesome rival. Meanwhile, there is no denying the fact that the bulk of undergraduate opinion at Yale favors Harvard on this question." The drift of such a sentiment, we believe, shows very clearly the inevitable tendencies of the day, and its significance is by no means small. The discussion of these two ideas of the American university, carried on by the writer we have quoted, we cannot undertake to follow. The arguments for and against...
...Davis is to discuss the connection of gorges and waterfalls with glacial drift before the Boston society of Natural History tomorrow evening...
...recent emphatic condemnation passed upon the marking system by two of Harvard's most successful and experienced professors shows pretty clearly the drift that opinion in the matter is taking among progressive educators, and is especially interesting as indicating the probable views of the Harvard faculty in general as to the system. The question is certainly one of the highest moment in university administration, and the importance of a thorough reform in the methods at present in vogue is becoming more and more clearly recognized. That Harvard will soon find it necessary to move in the matter seems...