Word: cast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years. The study of the authors would not be so limited, nor so cursory, if a more extended plan were pursued, than at present. Any course that attempts to give even general idea of Emerson one week, and Carlyle the next can only fail to accomplish its purpose. No cast iron list of ten writers can give any idea of their literary periods when the study of the list is to be finished in ten weeks. If the list admitted additions, the work in the Rhetoric would at once become a source of interest as aiming at a comprehensive knowledge...
...leading college man who is thoroughly known and has borne an honorable name in the college world, than in a professional umpire, who is employed simply on recommendation, who looks upon his task of umpiring purely as a means of money-getting, and who is often the cast-off of the league corps of umpires for offences discountenanced even in professional circles? College games are rarely umpired by men in good and regular standing...
...specimen of a new kind of chestweight has been placed in the gymnasium. It has several advantages over those now in use. There is no wood about it, cast iron taking its place everywhere. There are two pulleys instead of one, the second one being placed on the top of the weight box. Thus the box moves only half as far at each motion, and there is no danger of its striking the top or bottom of the slide when in use. Having two pulleys and a shorter range, twice as great a weight can be used without any more...
...founded many years ago by old Dr. John C. Warren, one of the celebrities of the medical profession, and a man much interested in the school. Among them are many very curious things which would fill the soul of a dime museum propritor with envy. As, for instance, a cast of the skull of the horned woman, who had ragged pieces of horns six inches long protruding from her forehead, and the skull of a man who was cured after having an iron tamping bar pass through his head. Such are few of the wonders of the museum...
...been said, and very truly, that no man or institution in this world which attains to greatness escapes from attack. So Harvard has found many times and not always to its liking. The most recent attempt to cast odium on the methods pursued at this university was in the form of a long letter to the Boston Transcript. This letter took the authorities severely to task for the manner in which the Divinity School is run and its professorships filled. Fortunately for our good name the writer of this lengthy diatribe seems to be almost alone in his opinions...