Word: processes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...beginning of the year a large squad started training for the ninety-eight football team, the smallest number of candidates for any one position being six. The weeding out process soon reduced the whole number to about four elevens. These were then divided into two squads of some twenty-five each, which were put in charge of H. D. Scott and J. Flint. From these squads two first elevens were chosen and for the first time the best men were then put together, though the good and bad were about equally divided between the two teams. Finally there has been...
...this explanation by Dr. Martineau, chiefly on the ground that it is not derived from our own self-consciousness; but observations of death in others must precede its experience by ourselves. At any rate the present validity of the belief is not affected by its origin, or by the process of its historical evolution...
...members than there are seats at the table, and each club to make such arrangements as it prefers to prevent the presence at any one time of more members than there are seats. They are further of the opinion that, if the above plan were carried out, the present process of obtaining checks for meals at general tables could be done away with, and that the money thus saved should be spent on the improvement of the service. Lastly, they think that one new table at the western end of the hall should be reserved as an emergency table...
...impartiality of view, and in equipoise of mind. Wordsworth inculcated that self-development through intercourse with man and nature which leads to self-sufficingness, self-sustainment and equilibrium of character. It was the individual that should and could be leavened, and through the individual the lump. To reverse the process was to break the continuity of history and to wrestle with the angel of destiny...
...still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires is range, and this is only acquired by trigonometrical exactness in establishing the position and measuring the relations of isolated points. Moreover, what a man has just learned is not to be called knowledge. It continues for a good while yet a foreign substance in the mind...