Word: impelling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...educational institution of world-wide fame. Time will show whether or not they erred in drawing the line at Gen. Butler. It must be confessed that they have increased the honor attaching to a LL. D., when coming from Harvard. The rule they have now tacitly laid down will impel the board hereafter to critically dissect the claims of future governors to the degree Gen. Butler has been refused. - [Transcript...
...spring advances, however, the wants of the season will impel these and other members to join, and we may expect a gradual but steady increase till the end of the year...
Demands that mightier powers impel...
...could learn Geology only by supplementing Chem. 2 with a course of applied excavation at the Bussey Institution. These courses together amount to some five hours a week, of which not one-half is given to Astronomy; so that a student's devotion must be great to impel him to pursue science under such difficulties. It may be said that opportunity for those who wish to make a specialty of the subject is given at the Observatory; but this seems to us insufficient. We are sure that many who do not care to go through a long course of special...