Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...error of the president of Princeton College is shared by many people. We are told by the learned professors that occasionally a student suffers some slight injury in the gymnasium which for a day or two necessitates absence from the class room, but nothing is ever said of the broken down book-worm whose back is bent, shoulders rounded and eyes ruined. At Harvard College the gymnasium is one of the best equipped in the country, and the students take just as much exercise as the director, who is both a trained gymnast and a skilful physician, counsels...
...crisis in the foreign floods has not yet been reached, and the distress is hourly increasing. Thousands of people are homeless, and reports of fresh inundations are being received. More dikes and embankments have broken at various points, the inhabitants seeking places of safety as best they...
...common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined to the college yard, where it seems appropriate and pleasant. The old tricks upon property are now unheard of. Professors are no longer...
...House a resolution was offered and referred declaring that if any action be taken on the reduction of the tobacco tax it be accompanied by a provision granting a rebate on broken packages in the hands of dealers and manufacturers...
Frye is to race Prince from the scratch on the bicycle at the Institute Fair building next Monday. It is expected that the record will be broken. The distance is ten miles...