Word: result
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...women who believed that money, expended in making advanced education possible to young men, was well expended. The money given is ordinarily not reserved for specified individuals; it is given freely to persons with whom the donors have no previous connection. In a word, scholarships are a result of an interest in the general welfare. They are investments of the community,-the sacrifice of one generation for the sake of a future generation...
...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am 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...
...club tables whose sole duty should be to keep the tables cleared of dishes that had been used; and, further, to have an increased number of waiters behind the screens to distribute the food. The first of these plans has been tried at the general tables with good result, and the second would obviate a large amount of lost time. Indeed, it is quite plain that, at crowded hours, more time is spent by a waiter in obtaining food than in carrying it to his table...
This plan does not, however, receive support at Oxford. The Oxford Magazine says that the result of this postgraduate study would be "that we shall be overrun with foreign persons introducing their strange ideas of society, and any further advance in that direction would certainly be regretted in after years...
...present increase in expensive college dormitories likely to result in changes in college life unfavorable to the best interests of Harvard...