Word: accustomed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work in the gymnasium. How the team will finally be made up cannot yet be known as several promising men have been prevented so far from pulling, but it is the wish of the captain to choose the men as soon as possible in order that they may accustom themselves to each other. Pulls will then be arranged with as strong teams as can be found, and possibly a second 'varsity team will be formed and kept in regular training with the first team. The following men at present compose the team; Grew, number one; Ewald, number two; Anderson, number...
...military academy is in sharp contrast to the freedom of action which is allowed at institutions of literary learning in this country, but undoubtedly the only way to make good and efficient army officers is to have the cadets subject to such severe discipline as gradually to accustom them to the hardships which they must endure in active service. In a few days we shall publish a similar article from a naval cadet at Annapolis, where possibly the discipline is more strict, and the duties more arduous...
...They will not go to a training table until the Easter vacation; but will, of course, strictly observe the rules of training in the interim. The hydrometers at the Gymnasium are being put in order, and some little time will be spent on them every day, in order to accustom the men to the handling of an oar and the swing of the body. The whole system of training will be as nearly like that followed last year as possible, and if the men work as faithfully as the '84 crew did, there is no reason to suppose that...
...higher intellectual sphere. Of course it only would be labor lost, either to argue with the "grind" or to seek to urge proper reading on many others, but the reading men are laying the best foundation and it is at college, if anywhere, that we must learn to accustom ourselves to books...
...forgotten that the more young men are cut off from fresh air and from the opportunity of vigorous exercise, the more in duced will they be to seek an apparent refreshment in the misuse of tobacco and of intoxicating drinks. It must also be admitted that the English universities accustom their students to energetic and accurate work, and keep them up to the habits of educated society. The moral effect of the more rigorous control is said to be rather illusory.-[Prof. Helmholtz...