Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heart consisted of a "right and left heart" joined into one, by a kind of muscular wall. This wall was sometimes lacking from birth, and owing to the imperfect circulation, people thus afficted turned a bright blue; this disease, cyanosis, is very apt to kill the sufferer in a few years. Having located the heart the lecturer proceeded to show how the blood going from the right auricle was passed into the ventricle and then sent travelling over the body. But ignorance of medical terms prevents our describing it at length...
Scholarships have been assigned to freshmen as follows: Bright scholarships, Giese, F. Green, Holliday, Hunter, Leavitt; Bigelow scholarships, W. H. Warren, Winkler; Kirkland scholarship, Hooper...
...proper study of mankind is man." The writer throughout is bright, entertaining, and incisive. But the immoderate application of well-known aphorisms detracts seriously from the freshness and value of the thought. The central idea of the paper is "The present lies four-square, and the sides are self, civilization, raw material, and fellow...
...With the return of the students for another term, work will be begun in earnest by those who are to represent Harvard next summer in various athletic contests. Last year was one of marked success both on land and water, and this year the prospect is bright. In general athletics, Harvard usually holds the lead by reason of more careful, intelligent and systematical training than her competitors have. There is no especial reason why she should not win the cup at Mott Haven again in 1886. In boating and base-ball many of the old men are here, and they...
Such a state of things is a positive harm. It is not merely that the University furnishes education of second-class character, but it prevents many bright men who are capable of a first-class education from receiving it elsewhere, by persuading them or their parents that what it has to furnish is just as good. There is a large number in every college in regard to whom it makes little difference whether the opportunities furnished them are first or second-class. They will get about as much from one as the other. But the 'remnant,' the bright men with...