Word: rendering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a movement on foot in the English universities to render their postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years...
...Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable us to form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind, of a poet's constructive ability, but the very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well...
...Duties on sugar would render unnecessary an income tax, which would be both difficult of equitable assessment and expensive in collection...
...must be held. Men who could do anything at all in the different events would add to the success of the meetings by the mere fact of the zest given to competition through the added numbers. Why should not such men enter? They will do themselves good and will render a real service to the University...
...night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." But how can a man be true to himself, if he does not know himself; and how can he know himself if he mistrusts his own identity, and puts aside his special gifts in order to render himself an imperfect similitude of some one else...