Word: agent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...accuracy, tables can be prepared and statistics made out which will be very interesting and valuable. The tests are along a line parallel and immediately related to those of Dr. Sargent. Dr. Fitz deals with the nervous part of muscular action, while Dr. Sargent tests the body, the agent of the nervous action. As a scientific study these tests are decidedly worthy of attention and the students should take sufficient interest in them to present themselves at the prescribed hours. Men from all branches of athletic training at all will render equal service, for comparisons must include all games...
...words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent affected. This style has now completely passed away and it is as the agent of the change which overthrew it that Wendell Phillips appears. It was probably the anti-slavery movement itself, with its feelings and sympathies calling for a poignant type of eloquence, which produced the change...
WANTED.- A good responsible man as city agent to handle the best and latest slot machines. Address, The Anthony Company, Cincinnati, Ohio...
WANTED.- A Harvard agent for a line of distinctly college goods. For particulars address...
...Wednesday of this week the Weld Boat Club will revive the eight-oared barge race which has not been held since the fall of '90. In that year the race was very successful as an agent for the development of new rowing material. This year the 'varsity crew men, Captain Davis and others, will coach the crews in the hope of bringing out a good race and of ultimately interesting new men in crew matters. For this reason it is important that the freshmen, who are as yet unknown in actual crew work, should enter this race and make themselves...