Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that a reform in this particular was earnestly to be desired. He, therefore, urgently requested that less attention be paid to outdoor sports and more to books. Dr. McCosh, like his learned brother the Rev. Howard Crosby does not believe in developing the muscles as well as the brain. Dr. McCosh is an intelligent man, but on the subject of physical culture he is as far from the golden mean as the man who advocates the other extreme. Excessive athletic exercise is as injurious as none at all, and the error of the president of Princeton College is shared...
...spirit of true manliness, and will find an answering sympathy in more breasts than those of 'the fast set.' It is tender; it is joyous; it is beautiful; it is noble. Fresh from the reading of it, our heart still brimming over with laughter and with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three...
Prof. Louis Agassiz, it is said, being asked at one time by a bumptious litterateur how much of a fish diet would benefit his brain, advised him to begin with two small whales...
...than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury of his brain the poem which is to be produced, so the servant stylograph contains within itself the hidden reservoir from which, at his will, ink sufficient for the writing will flow. Then, again, the stylograph is destined to play an important part in history. Think of the value that fortunate pen would...
...different lot altogether from what they used to be. There used to be a lot of those hot-blooded Southern fellows in college - fellows that had all the money they wanted, and who dared to do anything. They used to do things that were ingenious - things that required brain-work to invent; and lots of daring to carry out. Once they blew out the whole side of University. Of course any one could have thought of that, but it required lots of nerve to do it, and do it in such a way as to escape detection. At another time...