Word: existing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled are Tribrachs. Feet in which one syllable is short and another long are unknown in English, and the effect produced by them in languages where they exist is, whether
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...
...children. But they do not look deep enough. Is not the evidence which they do accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know that these are true. They know nothing but that they exist. They have agreed, however, to put faith in their reason, because without it no progress can be made. This is even more true of religious faith. Absolutely no progress has been made by a people without religion. No civilized nation can exist or has existed without it. It is absurd...
...college press in general. The Monthly has offended by its recent defense of English C; the college press by its heedlessly incorrect portrayal of college life. The expressions, "class feeling" and "true Harvard spirit" have, it seems been used to describe "states of consciousness" which do not exist. Ninety-five is therefore urged to give some tangible meaning to the obnoxious words by attending the class dinner as members of "a great class in an enlightened University...
...regulations relating to discipline, with the exception of occasional additions by the faculty, are embodied in three pages of a pamphlet on "Regulations for Students of Harvard College" which anyone may secure at the college office. This pamphlet is valuable, not only because it contains those regulations which really exist, but because it thereby furnishes a means for branding as false all other regulations which bid for belief...