Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when the food supply is insufficient or of an improper kind, the blood cannot be of the right kind to support the heart in its constant labor. In this way alcohol, by interfering with digestion and destroying the appetite, deprives the heart of what it needs. This is altogether apart from the special influence which alcohol has as a deranger of the heart's action...
...high in the air and giving his cerebral system a violent shock. Some of them go to pieces, part by part, like an old wreck; first the arms, then the back, and finally one by one the legs fade away. Some of these noble old chairs are ruthlessly pulled apart by wanton freshmen, who in no wise regard antiquities, being so recent themselves...
...foreground, and what in the background, how his state-statements are to be grouped to show his meaning most forcibly. In short, he must have each part subordinate to the expression of the meaning of the whole. He must not only be able to see facts apart, but to perceive with equal chearness their relations to each other and to the whole. If he fails to understand all their relations plainly, his performance will be confused and uninteresting...
...enables the student to accomplish earlier that portion of his required work which is always more or less a hindrance to his regular work in the college courses. The final work in forensics is in itself well calculated to occupy his leisure during the spring months. The further apart duties of this nature are kept the better for the student...
...even approach to making. The supposition that Harvard and Yale, for example, cannot meet each other in athletic contest and be at the same time institutions of learning, of serious thought and intellectual study, is false. Study and athletics can go together, and are better together than apart. A man can think while walking, as long as he doesn't walk too fast. And if he undertakes to think without even walking, the time will come when he can neither think nor walk. The moral of all this is, be studious but be athletic also. An athletic student is worth...