Word: enriching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole, the new method of examination bids fair, to quote from the report, "to enrich and diversify school programmes; to widen the avenues which lead to the university, without impairing in quantity or quality the preliminary training of any individual boy; and ultimately to utilize as preparatory schools for the university the best of that large class of American schools in which no Greek and only the elements of Latin are taught...
...spite of this, England is now the greatest manufacturing country in the world, and wages have risen instead of being lowered by competition with pauper labor. The working men are just beginning to find out who pays the import taxes; they know that their house rent is increased to enrich the lumber merchants of Maine, and that the limitation of the market by protection strengthens the "trusts" which have closed factories and thrown the workmen out of employment. One of the greatest dangers of our times is the growing tendency of the laborers to look to the State...
...necessary instrument without which it cannot act. They are two halves of the same being, and their harmonious development s conducive to human perfection. For the term of their earthly pilgrimage they are more inseparable and more independent than the horse and its rider. Hence we must improve. strengthen, enrich and harmonize the powers of the physical organism before we can reasonably expect to see aptitude, energy, talent and learning grow on the tree of life. That alone is a good education which gives to the body and the soul all the perfection and beauty of which they are susceptible...
...rendered great service to the French nation, and is consequently highly respected. His resignation was called for only as a measure of last resort to preserve the country from anarchy. His son-in-law, M. Wilson, was discovered to have used his influence to enrich himself by corrupt practices, and this discovery, taken with the recent attempted sales of decorations, made the people clamorous for his punishment as an example. President Grevy refused to abandon his son-in law, and a hostile feeling arose between the president and the legislature. The monarchical factions seized this opportunity to overthrow the existing...
...that great series of catastrophes that mar so large a part of two of the finest months of the year. As if to force upon us the consciousness of the nearness of these crucial tests, this new regulation requires us punctually to hand in the books in enrich the seal of our doom is soon to be written. Let every one take warning, enrich the Cooperative by so many cents and litter the desks of recitation-rooms with the fatal blue-book in good time...