Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this. Therefore would we remind our representative athletes of this generally adopted rule, and would earnestly request them, in their great matches, to avoid everything which can interfere with their duty, even indirectly, and to leave the betting to those whose increased anxiety is sure not to affect the results...
...rooted to be broken up in two months, prevent them from going to bed before midnight. And if prayers come before seven, they will have little more than six hours for sleep. If there is any good reason for the proposed change, the desires of the students will hardly affect it; but if, as seems probable, it is only a spiritless revival of a bygone custom, a well signed petition may very probably accomplish its end. We would suggest, then, that students interested in the matter should start a petition for keeping the hours of recitation throughout the year...
...mind and body so act and react on each other that whatever affects the one must in some degree affect the other, and that two dissimilar sensations in the body would produce similar conditions of the mind will scarcely be asserted. Whatever we eat, then, must affect the mind, and each article of food must produce a certain state of mind...
...which History IV. is so changed as to include the constitutional history of England as far as the seventeenth century. The ground thus covered, the constitutional history of one country, is so small a part of that to be gone over in the proposed elective, that it does not affect our pressing need of a course in the History of the Reformation...
...long time professional trainers were considered indispensable to the crew, but they have been superseded, and with good results. Why cannot the same thing be done in base-ball matters? It must be borne in mind that the evil effects, if any, of this custom would not affect us so nearly as the reputation of the College in the country at large...