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Word: brainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Parker, '90, an editor of the Harvard Monthly, leaves college next week for an absence of at least a year. Threatened brain trouble is the cause of his absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/4/1889 | See Source »

...influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury to "Harvard College as foreshadowed in the Norman Conquest." Mr. Trafford to "The Class of '89," Mr. Warren to "College life, is it happiness or agony?" Mr Wright to "Wage fund and its influence on the human brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa. | 3/27/1889 | See Source »

...will not expect to start in as a dramatic critic or book reviewer, but will know that he has got to do daily labor just as in any other honest business, It seems to me that journalism is invaluable for clearing the cobwebs out of a man's brain, and making him logical and quick in his thinking and clear and forcible in his expressions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Journalism at Cornell. | 3/19/1889 | See Source »

...American Review is shown to contain untrue statements. Our information also shows it was an extremely sensational article and that the class of men which it describes is very much smaller than a person from reading it would infer. At Harvard, on every hand, may be found abundance of brain, talent, moral and intellectual earnestness. And the nature of the instruction given is calculated rather to draw men out rather than to 'cram' knowledge into them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religious Life at Harvard. | 3/6/1889 | See Source »

Professor James has given each member of Phil. 2 a sheep's brain for dissection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/8/1889 | See Source »

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