Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advance of civilization, and to aid him in his choice of subjects for Concentration and Distribution". General summaries of science, philosophy, language, and other departments of human knowledge have before this been instituted here. But the correlation of all these departments has never previously been tried. The prospect at the outset appears little short of bewildering but whether or not the breathless freshman can assimilate the whole, one valuable thing will be accomplished. Heterogeneous reading of groups will be replaced by definite subjects with compulsory investigation and some intelligent though on what men of some intelligent thought on what...
Registration this year is something new and offers to the returning student, strategist and grind alike, a new and enticing problem. Long hours of waiting are to be replaced by the inviting prospect of a huge envelope containing all kinds of pamphlets, bills, notices, and schedules awaiting the registree after a mere few minutes spent in registering on Friday or Saturday...
...There is a possibility that later reports from points in the interior of Mexico along the path of the eclipse will show that some valuable data were obtained. At Havana, a little to the north of the totality zone, a tropical storm broke just before the eclipse, ruining the prospect. In New York, where the maximum eclispe was 46%, weather conditions were excellent, and many photographs and observations were made by home-staying scientists, and laymen with the usual paraphernalia of smoked glass, dark spectacles and pin-prick holes...
...Result. Aside from the apparently conciliatory tone of the two replies to Governor Pinchot, the miners and operators remained almost as far apart as ever. The last day passed in unsuccessful conference. The strike began, but all prospect of success had not perished. An agreement might still be reached on the basis of the Governor's proposals. To that end the meetings adjourned until Sept...
...Saturday, Sept. 1, President Coolidge sailed down the Potomac on the Mayflower. Mrs. Coolidge and four guests sat on deck enjoying the prospect; the President sat below working at his desk...