Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell has purchased of P. T. Barnum the skeleton of the dead elephant whose head was presented to the college directly after the fire. It is proposed to make a comparative study of this skeleton with the bones of an extinct mastodon which were recently found in Western New York State...
Shortly after twelve o'clock last Saturday night, Henry Jacob Powell, of the sophomore class, was found dead in his bedroom, No. 5 Holworthy. The door leading from his study to his bedroom was closed, and when opened a quantity of coal gas rushed out which had been escaping from a gas jet evidently purposely turned on. On the desk in his study was found a medicine chest, apparently new, from which the phial of nuxvomica was missing. This was immediately found in the center of the room entirely emptied of its contents. There was also on the desk...
...able to write fluently and clearly upon simple topics; and some people learn in half that time. There are two magazines published in Volapuk; several enthusiasts in Germany have begun to teach it in schools and declare that it is far easier to acquire than any living or dead language. Volapuk will be used chiefly as a commercial language; already several commercial schools in France and Germany teach it; and at one of the great shops of Paris, a Volapuk interpreter is regular employed. The students of Volapuk in the United States form as yet a very small number...
...last-somewhat reluctantly. She knows, meanwhile, that she could not have passed her boyhood without their help, and her relations with them are sure to remain kindly. There is no talk here of the conflict of religion and science. Nobody here gives the name "religion" to that dead forest of theology whose dry limbs are cracking and falling with every vigorous wind that stirs. And nobody has done more than the clergy to free old Harvard from certain false theories as to study which fettered her young feet quite as sorely as any false theology ever tied her hands...
...suppose those who see this will feel more interested in our foot-ball team that anything else here at present. For once in her history Princeton feels completely disheartened about her chances for the championship. The fates seems to have set their faces dead against us. The failure of Cook and Moore to return was the first blow our hopes received. Then Wagenhurst, who was elected captain in Cook's place, was injured and it is now doubtful if he will be able to play at all this season. Now Church, '88 and Black, '88, who played endand next...