Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...come to pay homage to the university of your love, and through it to all universities; because in them truth is sought, knowledge increased and stored, literature, science and art are fostered, and honor, duty, and piety are taught. The spirit in which you come is a spirit of profound and well-grounded hopefulness...
...Heidelberg are always partial to him, both because of his celebrity and because of his exceptionally clear and distinct pronunciation of his mother tongue. But still he is not to be recommended to the young beginner in German. His lectures are almost all on Philosophy of the most profound and abstruse nature...
...which all are forced to suffer in small things during the vacation. But what is advised? Shall the students insure their possessions, or pay the janitors more? While the loss of a few articles, apparently of no use to any but their owners, seems hardly calculated to inspire very profound wrath, it does become irritating when repeated each summer. But perhaps these are the perquisites of the carpet-layer, or of that strange boy whom no one knows and yet who manages to prove himself so much at home in the college rooms during the summer. The safest course after...
...recent action of the management of Columbia College will undoubtedly provoke a renewal of the old discussion of "Sex in Education," but successful precedent is now upon the side of the co-educators, and the final result cannot be mistaken. This action of Columbia will, without doubt, exercise a profound influence upon those who oppose her policy. But any educator who to-day defiantly closes his eyes and ears to a truth which all he may say or do will yet be heard and recognized, does not merit the name 'educator." If an opportunity to gain an education means...
...right method to pursue to keep the work of the crew a profound secret to outsiders until, say, within one week of the race, and if any possible good can be expected from such a method, everybody would gladly acquiesce for the sake of expected success, but whenever a member of the crew is asked a question, mysterious winks and dubious monosyllabic replies are all the satisfaction usually obtained. When the university crew is beaten in a two mile race by a class crew, no explanation is offered and the old, old threadbare subterfuge is adopted, the blind, unreasoning method...