Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purposeless way, doing its tasks, acquiring and forgetting, when, some day, we may be awakened by a great thought or by some terrible message. Then the tasks of the mind take on a new meaning; the soul weakens to itself. This is the greatest experience a soul can pass through. The impulse towards this transition is not a mere physical reaction; it is the influence of the revelation of a living God calling to us. Like the growth of the flowers in spring is the development of the soul answering to the gentle sunshine of God's spirit...
...eventually must be adopted as one of the necessary reforms of the college. The present system of examinations is comparatively worthless. It allows a man to grind up in a single night a whole half year's work, and the result is he remembers just enough to pass a fair examination the next day, and afterwards knows nothing about his subject. It is the exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does not care for the great advantages the college...
Question: "Ought the Blair Educational Bill to pass...
Question: "Ought the Blair Educational Bill to pass...
DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 22, 1888.Resolved, that the Blair Educational Bill ought to pass...