Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...body. Disease, strong emotions, fear, grief, will also produce paralysis. The wonderful and inexplicable action of the will is thus stopped. The mind often produces pain or disease by simply concentrating attention on certain parts of the body. A criminal once died from imagining that he was bleeding to death. Brain diseases are the cause of great mortality, especially among children. In all exposure a man should keep up courage, and not let his imagination overcome...
Another student has lately died at Yale: this makes the sixth death there this collegiate year...
Probably the largest literary prize ever offered is that of $1,000,000 to be given in 1925 by the Russian Academy for the best work on the life and reign of Alexandria I. In 1855, shortly after the death of Alexandria I, the sum of 50,000 rubies was offered by one of his favorite ministers, to be given as a prize a century after his death, and this at compound interest will amount in 1925 to $1,000,000. - Yale News...
...firmness which might be desired, yet his knowledge of early Russian literature and his thoughtful estimate of the piece in question, The Revisor, make what he says worthy of attention. Mr. W. W. Baldwin has a very sympathetic sketch of southern life, - an old negro's story of the death of a son in battle. The piece has a touch of truth and feeling rare in our college papers. The only other prose article, which is by Mr. H. G. Bruce, is entitled The Confessions of Donald Grant. Mr. Bruce has given us a very strong and subtle study...
...mere book of dogmas, and its vitality is gone. Make it a biography and it is the Book of life. Make it the history of Jesus of Nazareth, and the world holds it to its heart forever! Not simply His coming or going - not simply His faith or His death, but his living. The total life of Jesus is the world's salvation, and the Book in which His life shines, orbed and distinct, is the world's treasure...