Word: establish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Throughout the whole complex body of phenomena that constitute the history of Greek sculpture we can trace a great underlying struggle to establish complete harmony between form and matter, between the subject and the language in which it is expressed, between the thought and the stone. In the remnants of the Archaic Period we are oppressed by a sense of the obtrusion of the material on our vision, to the detriment of the idea to be expressed. Again, in the Period of Decline, brilliant though this decline must be admitted to have been, we are oppressed by the presence...
...marked. The instructor can no longer, as in former years give a fixed value in per cents to each question, foot up the total and give the mark accordingly. The system of marking by classes will force the instructors to judge the papers as a whole and to establish the gradation of marks by a careful comparison of all the papers with the most perfect one they find...
...scrutiny is expended on a new athletic record, and until it has been accepted by the Spirit of the Times as correct, it is generally looked upon with suspicious eyes. The perfection of rules of measuring, starting and timing, make the present records all over the world uniform, and establish them as final when they are made. However, it can be seen that the present records are pushed down so close that only in bicycling, where new ones are merely set up to be knocked down again, is there a probability of an important change in the immediate future.Even...
Captain Keyes of the University crew was the first speaker. He spoke in a non-committal way, stating that the action of the freshmen was not to be made hastily, but that they must decide whether they wished to establish a precedent for future classes; he also spoke of the bad condition of the course, and thought Harvard ought to keep up the old traditions of the Columbia freshman race unaltered. Mr. T. Q. Browne, '88 followed him in the same tone...
...will push those intentions with a fair degree of tenacity through the distractions which beset his daily path? We need, indeed we must have, a third class of helpful limitations which may be influential over the persistent adhesion of our student to his chosen line of work. To establish onward-leading habits, therefore, should be one of the chief objects in devising limitations of election. The habit wanted is the habit of spontaneous attack. Prescription deadened this vital habit. Election invigorates the springs of action. I believe study at Harvard is to-day more interested, energetic, and persistent than...