Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Furthermore, college graduates have a heavy responsibility thrust upon them in this matter of art. The general public looks to the college bred man to direct its taste in art. The wealthy turn to them to guide in the eredtion of public museums, galleries, or monuments. The call is urgent and practical. With this lofty purpose in view, the study of Fine Arts surely deserves serious and earnest application...
Harvard has long been endeavoring to make some improvement over this state of affairs, but, it must be admitted, without great success. Each year there are thrust upon the English department from three to four hundred students who are sadly incapable of writing their own language well. With this mass of unformed material to develop, the wonder is not that much of the undergraduate English remains unsatisfactory, but rather that any of it is ever really satisfactory. It is to be hoped that the preparatory schools will before long come to the aid of the college, and build...
...years were making ready for actual work in the life of the world, when all had promise and the fulfillment seemed just beyond. Few years have passed since the University underwent similar suffering. It is such events as these that waken us from our wonted placid composure, and thrust home upon us the real significance of our life here. It is a time when the common grief vivifies a sincere sense of fellowship among us, and we realize what warm sympathy we shall ever hold for the fellow student who today is in great grief over the accidental result...
...aspirations we are too apt to be thwarted by the obstacles which the over cautious or suspicious thrust before us. The man with a measuring line comes to us and lays down in accurate terms all the mountainous obstacles which lie in our path. The twelve disciples were sent out to convert the world; the same surveyor presented to them a careful estimate of the great indifference of the human race towards religion, the pagan armies of the mighty Roman Empire which must be overcome, but the little band of twelve did what they could from year to year until...
...officiating clergyman, but there have been few instances in the past six years when Appleton Chapel has not been filled with an encouraging proportion of students. There is no doubt that the students will attend prayers more willingly and earnestly when they are offered them and not thrust upon them. Still further, the influence of religion loses its force on men when they are compelled, whether they will or no, to hear it preached to them. The successful way to draw college men to thoughts of religion is to attract them to religious services, not force them there. The system...