Word: manifest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proximity to a large city. This idea is unique, and, we believe, has never been advanced before; but it is not the relty of the statement, but the absuldity contained in it, which we wish to consider. To say that there is no remedy for the snobbishness manifest in so much of our life here is to admit more than any one ought who feels that he has life and vigor...
...play, there is certainly no excuse for there not being present, as often as possible, to encourage the men by cheering, when any good plays are made. If these conditions are fulfilled, and every man on the eleven trains conscientiously, and does his best, there is assuredly no reason manifest why the freshmen may not look forward with a reasonable degree of confidence to close struggle with Yale this fall...
...astonishing increase in the size of the incoming classes. This fact awakens in everyone the realization of the truth that during the past few years the strides made in all the departments of science and literature have been very great, but in no direction has this advance become more manifest than in the progress of learning at the different colleges. The faculties have adopted broader principles, giving the students a larger scope in the selection of studies, and the number of courses in the different schools have been constantly enlarged. In nearly all the radical changes which have occurred, Harvard...
There is no question that the predominance of the Cambridge "muckers" both large and small was manifest night before last. Several forays and assaults it was our lot to witness and most assuredly they were begun, although perhaps not carried to a finish by half-grown men who had not yet learned what it was to mind their own business. That some efficient means should be employed for the prevention of such performances in the future, no one can sincerely doubt; yet how can the desired end be accomplished. The athletic committee is probably the proper executive for these duties...
...rather read the book of his own life. If ever in following his own desires he has done a just, a kindly act, he can find in that, evidence of God; for justice and charity are divine attributes. In society, politics, science, poetry, we see the same truth made manifest, - if the heart be not right, if the life be not pure, each in the end will cast us out. When the world be so purified we shall have reached the perfect state. "I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first earth hath passed away...