Word: canals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prizes of $100 and $200 have been offered to the students of John Hopkins for the best essays on the advantages which the primpt construction of the Nicaragua canal would bring to the United States and the importance of humane education in colleges...
SCRIBNER'S.An article by Henry James on the "Grand Canal", with fascinating Italian pictures, begins the current number of Scribner's. After that the most striking contributions are a paper by W. C. Brownell on "Realistic Painting in France" and "Conversations and Opinions of Victor Hugo" by Octave Uzanne. The letter is very well illustrated from contemporary prints...
...walk the purpose of physical culture is practically defeated. Although most trainers maintain that the exercise is not the on whole injurious, it surely fails of adequate physical good. The grating motions of the hip produces an effect on the alimentary canal which surely cannot aid the digestion, when the ordinary peristaltic motion is surely insufficient. More than any other athletic exertion, the walk produces vomiting, so it is not conducive to more bodily soundness. What is more, walking does not develop the body for its best efficiency. Other events exercise the muscles employed in the normal and rational activities...
...Princeton foot ball men began to row on the canal yesterday. Their work at first will be very light, but later the men will be divided into sixes according to ability, and will probably row from three to six miles daily...
...even more muddy. If it is too late in the season to lay boards, or if lumber is unattainable, ashes form a very good substitute, as is shown in the condition of the path from Thayer to Holden Chapel. A little judicious application of ashes to the present canal-like walks, would not only satisfy the feelings of the masses, but would add materially to the good looks of Fair Harvard...