Word: manifesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...properly be said to rely on neither of these expedients; the student is confronted with thoroughly college methods at the beginning of his Freshman year and left largely to work out his own adjustment to them. While the gain in self reliance and educational maturity of this process is manifest, the difficulties involved are nevertheless great enough to prevent some Freshmen ever emerging from them at all, and to subject many others to a period of disheartening struggle...
...definitely to understand that the former are available and willing to discuss the academic problems of the latter. Were the instructor properly compensated for the extra burden thus placed upon him he might in some cases go farther and inquire into the causes and extent of any general deficiencies manifest in the work of his students...
...governments outside of Italy and to wear down the resistance of succeeding Italian regimes to the Pope's claims of temporal sovereignty. Upon this point, Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican, declared last fall that His Holiness claims: "Liberty and independence, not only real and perfect, but also manifest to the faithful of the whole world...
...particular interest to the Indian were the summer and winter ceremonies, for his life was ordered to a great extent in conformity to the changing seasons. The beginning of the new year was the first day of Spring when the new life from Mother Earth commenced to manifest itself. Then was the time for the planting of seed for the food crops. All was accomplished by the dramatization of planting, germination, and growth...
...another expedition Frémont saw the Oregon Trail as busy as a barnyard in mating season, crossed the snow-deep Sierras in midwinter, visited Captain Suiter's fort in the fertile Sacramento valley. Ideas of manifest destiny were firmly planted in Frémont's head. So, on his next trip to California, he began to write history instead of geography. Mexican General Castro ordered him out of California. He went up to Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled...