Word: ages
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...direction we may see Dr. Sargent's system of exercise and examination spread by the hands of competent and well educated physical trainers thoughout the whole country. This summer course affords a most thorough discipline and preparation for the peculiar work in which its members are to engage. An age of sane ideas about bodily exercise, outside sports and proper care for health seems at length dawning near. And we cannot repress a feeling of pride that at Harvard are found the seeds of this reform...
...often hear our elders regret that we no longer live in that age of poetry in which they lived twenty or thirty years ago. No one can deny that there is not that atmosphere about us to-day that used to rouse the enthusiasm and stimulate the nobler aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever...
...sermon in Appleton Chapel last night was preached by Rev. F. G. Peabody on Dan. 6 chap. 10 verse, "His window being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem." "The way a man habitually faces is the great point of importance in the church, in the age and in everyone of us. Nearness will not bind, distance will not separate us except as our frontage, our landscape is alike or different. Everyone may look toward other far-off spiritual landscapes, although he have first to cut away from before his window the tangled vine of the perplexing world. Open your spiritual...
...cosmopolitan age we exchange our talents as we do our produce: communication is easy and the best is readily found; so we go to Paris for instruction in the art of expression, for it is there that it is most assiduously and, I think, most successfully cultivated; indeed it could hardly be otherwise, as literature in France grows under exceptionally favorable circumstances...
...hopelessness of their task, they were won over by the specious promises of the white men to care for and feed them. Now they are becoming more civilized and like to see their children enjoying the advantages of that education which is denied themselves on account of their age. The Apaches are more cruel and relentless towards those who fall into their power, more skillful in fashioning and carrying out their plots, and more expert in covering their tracks than the majority of their brothers. But they make excellent scouts...