Word: laying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...personal history of some of the students was thrilling. The oldest of the two Russians, a man of middle age, was a medical student. As a teacher, a lay doctor, and the propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take...
...seeing men. The engineer is cosmopolitan. He will be employed more abroad in the future. Construction, too, is next to what is pleasantest of all things, creation. Variety and the element of uncertainty in his work are also attractive. There is no science which the engineer does not lay under tribute. He has as a result of his work, that he is contributing to the general prosperity, and is making the lives of his fellow men happier, safer and more profitable to themselves. The pecuniary rewards of the profession are very good. Engineering is a working, growing and advancing profession...
...philosophical course at the expense of considerable time and trouble. A pamphlet similar to that issued by the Natural History department, for example, could not fail to interest many in a department which is at present somewhat exclusive. A concise explanation of the purposed work of each course would lay more stress on the work of the department as a whole than can at present be expected...
...attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold of an unvarying, underlying truth...
Much as national characteristics enter into the philosophic thought of a country, yet it seems to be a new idea, and one must say a remarkable one, to thus absolutely lay down the philosophy which should be the guide of an American. Simply because a man is an American he should take up one line of thought in preference to another seems to indicate an amount of narrowness that is extraordinary. Philosophy aims at the truth, and it is the truth that the philosophic student wants. He does not want the philosophy that may best suite the nature...