The desideratumhere desired is to be found by the teacher in the method, now very extensively known, of drawing lessons from useful truths, and then applying them to the future probable circumstances of the pupils.
In the "catechetical exercise," as it has been called, and which has of late years been extensively used by our best teachers, the desideratum above described has been most happily and effectively supplied to the Educationist.
The forces operating for and against this desideratum seemed to him about equally matched.
And that desideratum will result in making everybody honest, I suppose?
And yet, this great desideratum can never come about until the youth are brought into the true fold.
Republic is intended to note as a desideratum the exposition in the Timaeus; wherein the constituent elements of mind or soul are more fully laid down, and its connection with the fundamental elements of the Kosmos.
Was this, or something else, the desideratum of Beattie?
It is therefore an importantdesideratum to combine the hardness of a steely surface with the toughness of an iron body.
Figures and stripes do not conceal impurity, nor should this be a desideratumwith any decent man.
Money, as usual, was the great desideratum for Philip, if the war was to be carried on with hope of success.
This work had always been a great desideratum with the writer, who had now chiefly to consider how the future steps were to be attained, having much less to occupy his attention in regard to the safety of the people employed.
Another and no less important desideratum was, that the Executive should be independent for his continuance in office on all but the people themselves.
Let me add that it is the great desideratum by which this form of government can be rescued from the opprobrium under which it has so long labored, and be recommended to the esteem and adoption of mankind.
The desideratum being to have a material that shall be sufficiently pliant, and at the same time firm enough to withstand the elevated temperatures to which it may be exposed.
A desideratumin biblical literature has been well supplied by Professor Bissell, of Hartford, in a work on the Old Testament Apocrypha.
A seriously important desideratum in theological literature is some authoritative canon of the infallible utterances of the Roman see.
If also it could be made to prevent insuring of tickets and capitals, it seems to be the granddesideratum in this branch of financeering.
It is, therefore, a desideratum with the brewer to mash at the temperature which most fully promotes this important object.
Much in the same spirit is the list of qualifications necessary for a curate in a country parish: the chief desideratum being that he must be able to play tennis with the vicar's daughters.
The same experience will result here and there, whenever a book forming a desideratum in more than one cabinet occurs for sale, and is perhaps the first copy which has been offered.
But the grand desideratum for a newly-moulted hawk is plenty of carrying.
Beeton, supplies a desideratum much and widely felt—that of a comprehensive yet portable dictionary of proper names.
It has long been a desideratum to preserve fruits by some cheap method, yet by such as would keep them fit for the various culinary purposes, as making tarts and other similar dishes.
In simple forms of yellow fever the first desideratum of the practitioner is to become acquainted with the patient's condition at the moment of attack.
All this is perfect enough, but, alas, the grand desideratum is wanting--it has no flavor or aroma whatever.
The great desideratum in native education is a thorough knowledge of the English tongue, which naturally is the first stone for any superstructure of more extended learning.
The grand desideratum in the improvement of Ceylon is the increase of the population; all of whom should, in some measure, be made to increase the revenue.
Then, in regard to equability of climate, the great desideratum for invalids in any locality, here again sentiment and science are greatly at variance.
Many plans would be useful, such as the establishment of savings banks for instance; but the principal, the desideratum in fact, is the facile procuration of cheap land.
How does it happen that this desideratum is not accomplished by the asylums in existence?
Cheapness became the desideratum of our age, We insisted on cheap gloves and shoes and wine and ribbons, and why not cheap divorces?
A simple faith united to an instant obedience is the desideratum in gardeners; usually a gardener is as obstinate as he is conservative, and this is not at all to my mother's mind.
Indisputably speed must be the desideratum of all activity, educational or other.
A greatdesideratum between Coquimbo and Valparaiso is an exact measurement of-- A.
