Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disastrous cyclone swept over Kansas City, Mo., last evening, demolishing a vast number of buildings and doing much other damage...
...writer in the Chicago Times says: "An astronomer told the writer yesterday that the experts in that science do not attempt nowadays to cover all the ground, but each confines himself to his chosen department of work. The field is too vast for one man to attempt to spread himself all over it. Prof. Pickering, for instance, the director of Harvard Observatory, is a great observer, and gives almost exclusive attention to his telescopic work, leaving the mathematics of the science entirely to his assistants, Messrs. Chandler and Rogers...
...policy, while it has always been progressive, has been at the same time wisely conservative, and we may be sure that hasty, ill-advised and radical measures will not be taken. But the mere introduction of co-education, in however modest and unobtrusive a form, is full of vast meaning for the future of Harvard. The little step from an annex under the care of Harvard's professors to a women's college, as a part of Harvard University, is likely to prove a measure of far greater import than even the introduction of the elective system, with...
...severe wind and rain storm prevailed throughout the Northwest on Saturday, doing a vast amount of damage. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri were visited and a large number of buildings were demolished...
...large and appreciative audience in Sever, last night, Dr. Royce gave the third of his series of lectures on the "Religious Aspect of Philosophy." This lecture considered especially the world outside of man. Science assumes that this world is a vast whole, under the control of physical forces; an immense succession of phenomena, every one of which could have been predicted from all eternity by a mind powerful enough to know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution...