Word: proof
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...above report has been received, and its perusal has convinced me of the fact that the committee have been examiners in deed as well as in name. The insight the report gives into the real merits and defects of the various departments is a proof of the conscientious diligence with which the committee have performed their task. They have, by a personal and unannounced attendance on the recitations in each department, been able to judge of the instruction from the students' point of view, and have not formed their conclusions from the reports of the instructors themselves. The influence...
...This poem, from an old collection in the Library, supposed to be of the Augustan age, has been sent to the Magenta, as one more proof of our great resemblance to the ancients in our pleasures as well as in our severer traits...
...inevitable expectatur of the President, a youth was seen to mount the rostrum with all the awkwardness of persons who feel themselves in a false position, heightened by the uncouthness of a barbarous habillement, which he had evidently never proved. After more or less unsystematic bowing, each gave his proof of memory for bad prose with all the systematic regularity of cadence exhibited by a machine." - The Round Table, August...
...have before us the proof-sheets of the Harvard Directory for this year. It will be remembered that the first issue of this handy little pamphlet appeared last year, and was at once greeted as a most useful publication. The regular Catalogue is published so late in the year that we really know where almost every fellow rooms ere we have opportunity of referring to its pages. But the Directory, published thus early in the term, is indispensable to every student...
...just awakening to the knowledge of his own faculties, has begun to question the truth of what it has been taught to accept as dogma. On the one hand, science, made confident by its recent achievements, assails the very foundations of the Christian religion, rejecting with scorn testimony and proof which require standards of judgment other than those of the exact sciences; while, on the other, literature, or rather the champion of the "literary theory of culture," refuses to accept a religion which cannot be justified by man's own powers of reasoning. Just as the word "culture...