Word: epoch
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Columbus opened an epoch when he sailed to America in 1492, America is opening another epoch by sailing with aid and comfort to save Europe and the world from its unruly elements. It is a fitting return for what Europe, in the person of Columbus, did for America...
...some good, some incomprehensible good to the generations which are to succeed this struggling generation, otherwise there is no reason in existence. As the Reformation was the age of religious idol-shattering and the age of Revolution the age of political idol-shattering, so this, the unnamed but magnificent epoch, is the age of social idol-shattering. So, utterly will they be shattered that not all reaction many restore them; no more than it may restore the very dead...
...That epoch is within the memory of the oldest cadet--although it is now passed away by three weeks and more of secular eternities--when nine o'clock was the dawning hour of the day, and the sun, the student, and the voice of the tocsin to the first class arose simultaneously and at once. He was a hero who attended nine o'clock classes thrice a week. He was a demi-god who managed to get his breakfast beforehand. Most men never knew that the dawn bestirs itself more than three hours before noon. Only botanists and late wassalers...
...year 1816 does, however, mark an important epoch in the history of theological education in Cambridge and the beginning of a new era, for in that year the Divinity School was definitely distinguished from the College, though the Divinity Faculty was not formally organized until 1819. On February 3, 1816, a committee appointed by the corporation issued an appeal for subscriptions for the extension of the means of theological education in Cambridge. The letter states that the President of the University has officially declared that "neither the object nor the consequence, 'of enlarging the theological funds of the University...
...understand it. Such diligence and complete absorption in the required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would indeed be unwise, but not discouraging. But to think that students, of all people, should read day by day the narrative of the epoch-making events now occurring in Europe without knowing or caring what it meant, is most appalling, for it shows that they have not yet learned how to read. It is better not to read at all than to read without any effort at understanding, for this habit is not only...