Word: upwards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...live in a constant condition of mental change, not always mental progress, but if the desire back of the change is good the upward striving in its reaction on the mind is bound to have a good effect on character. Will power is more enduring and capable of achievement than the power of the tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough...
...from the many slowly upward...
...committee of the Harvard Mission which has the trip in charge has selected from the men who had applied or been asked to attend the convention, and had been granted leave of absence by the Office, 32 regular delegates; and designated the remaining men as alternates, numbered from 1 upward. The selection was made on the basis of the following considerations; all student volunteers, that is men who have offered to go out as foreign missionaries, were included; and among the remaining men preference was given, first to men who have been active in the undertakings of the Harvard Mission...
...including graduate and special students, in 3 less. The Law School registration shows a decrease of 24 from last year's figures. The only increase in this year's registration statistics is offered by the Medical School, the entering class in which shows an increase of 10, the first upward step after the large decrease due to the requirement of a degree for admission. The total registration of the School at this date is 8 less than last year. The Dental School shows a loss of 8 in its entering class, the total registration of the School being 23 behind...
...Middle Ages, 1000-700 B. C. which came immediately after it. The Mycenaeans themselves had a long past to build upon and may therefore be called the Ancients of Antiquity, since like our own more modern Ancients of Greece and Rome, they represent the culmination of a long continued upward trend in the affairs of men. Of the Mycenaean art, eminent writers say that through its genius for vivacity in action, it may be called in reality early Greek art; and that the Ionian Greeks and the Athenians are the rightful heirs of the genius exemplified in the works...