Word: life
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Washington is a centre in which great educational resources are brought together, and from which are radiated vast influences upon American life; and the fact that it is our capital has made it the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers...
...Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott...
...called, in our day and generation, leaving marked and lasting effects on the character and tastes of young men who graduate, as the low esteem in which they hold the professor-that is, the small importance they attach to their opinions about everything relating to the conduct of life-everything, in short, outside the special subject which the professor teaches. It is a rare thing to find a graduate of one of our leading colleges who has brought away any respect for the faculty in any character but that of men of learning. As men of the world...
...certainly agree with the stand that is there taken. However desirable these recommendations may be, it is surely to be regretted that the faculty have no voice in proposing or rejecting them. The faculty, from their close relationship with the students, their intimate knowledge of student-work and student-life should, we think, be competent to regulate and control college government. The statement in regard to "low esteem" for the professors and faculty is somewhat sweeping, although possessing a kernel of truth. It is very much to be regretted that several professors in the last few weeks have been constrained...
According to this hypothesis, the earth's crust has been estimated to be from forty to two hundred millions of years old, and since organic life would have been impossible before the formation of this crust, we find the time that animal life has been upon the globe. Man may have existed between one and two millions years ago. To enable the audience to appreciate the length of time that human beings have lived, the lecturer said that it bore the same relation to what is commonly known as the historic period as the whole life...