Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller
Hugh Millerwas a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
academic advisory center change faculty gone john rome since
Loyola faculty from stateside have been rotating there since the John Felice Rome Center was founded, and that has, as of now, silently, silently been abolished. That's a change that should have gone to faculty council, it should have gone to faculty affairs, it should have gone to academic affairs.... There's even a Rome Center advisory committee, which was never told.
beforehand believe burden decisions hands
I believe decisions should be made in daylight, explanations for them should be given, consultations about them should have been had beforehand and the burden of that decision should have been in the hands of the faculty.
committed committee folks tournament
The folks on the tournament committee were committed to making this a success.
achieve additional capacity confident continue expect financing goal growing growth increase level loan percent provides remain stated volume
The increase in financing capacity provides us with additional liquidity to continue our goal of growing loan originations. We remain confident in our previously stated loan origination guidance, and expect to achieve at least 25 percent growth in our 2005 loan origination volume over our 2004 level $2.6 billion,
achieved billion both conditions continued cost demand efficiency exceeded exceeding expectation favorable financial increase increased loan market operating percent prior process product record reduce reduction stated strong successful year
While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004.
encouraging encouragement opportunity
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
prayer men keys
Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.
jealous dark degrees
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.
truth rocks miracle
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science.
school study school-life
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
agency rocks sea
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.
development lasts firsts
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.
atheist men hands
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.
intelligent sky speak
The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.