Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considerate words by Dr. Wm. Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, are commended to the attention of freshmen : "Few appreciate the strain that even two or three hours' attendance daily, and the effort to master two or three simple lessons, exert on the sensitive organizations of young children. Their brain and nerves are exquisitely delicate, and it is a period of such rapid growth that the power of nutrition is taxed to supply material for the formation of perfect tissue." And we might add that the nutrition to be had at Memorial is hardly suited for the delicate brains...
...coroner's jury in Montreal yesterday returned a verdict that a child only seven years of age died of congestion of the brain, produced by strong drink...
Wast't in teeming brain of grim Astrologer...
...examinations. The mind, unaccostomed to such work, naturally gives way under the strain of so much knowledge forced into it in such a short time, and forgets usually in as few days as were required to learn it. One can perform ten hours work each day with the brain as readily as with the muscles of the body, provided it is done regularly, and commenced from a small beginning...
...expect a man entirely unaccustomed to labor to do a hard day's work, neither can we expect one whose brain has been comparatively inactive to commence suddenly upon ten hours of work each day. Yet this is precisely what many of us are doing, and when our exhausted mind refuses to go further, we complain of the great amount of work laid upon us, and say that no human being could reasonably be expected to do it, forgetting that in most cases the fault lies in ourselves, and our own faithfulness from...