Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent. to his manly self-respect and ability to use his common sense. The game is an education itself for it gives a man "certain necessary qualities that do not come from much reading of books." "Active thinking, self-reliance, power to carry out what is attempted, and ability to decide at once and in the right way - these are not qualities...
...trail had been laid off a short time before, and led up Concord Ave. to Walden St., across the fields to the Fitchburg Railroad, then to the Glacialis, around Fresh Pond to Cushing St., down to Mt. Auburn Station, through Brattle St. and Mason St., and across the Common, the finish being in front of the Law School. Carr took the lead at the start and kept it all during the race; he set a hot pace and finished very strong, making the five and a quarter miles in 31 minutes and 50 seconds. Fenton was second...
...business in order of its importance. - (c) They solve the quorum question constitutionally: "A Democratic Leader" in N. Am. Rev., vol. 151, p. 237. - (d) They protect adequately both majority and minority. - (e) They do not confer on the speaker dangerous power. - (b) They are supported by precedent and common sense: T. B. Reed in N. Amer. Rev., March, May, and August, 1890. Joseph Chamberlain in Nineteenth Cent., vol. 28, p. 861; J. G. Cannon in Cong. Rec., vol. 21, (1889-91), part II, p. 1172; Theodore Stanton in N. Amer...
...exact distance of the course will be five and a quarter miles. The start will be made at 4 o'clock sharp from in front of the Gymnasium. From there the course will be across the Common to Concord Avenue to Walden Street; from there across the fields in a northerly direction to the junction of the Fitchburg Railroad with the Watertown branch, where the runners will be checked; up the Fitchburg Railroad to the Glacialis, where runners will be checked a second time; from here in a south-westerly direction to Fresh Pond, around Fresh Pond drive to Cushing...
What writings the ancients had were kept in monasteries, where the common people could not get at them, and, in consequence men came to rely entirely upon their memories...