Word: ending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strongest men that are trying, and pulls with more fire than any other. The men need to pay especial attention to acquiring a slow and smooth recover. When the stroke is quickened, the men quicken the recover too much. They are also inclined to "jerk" at the end of the stroke instead of letting the body finish easily, and come forward again slowly without pausing...
...that the present system of pecuniary assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar, and implies an obligation for the favor received. The bestowal of money to help men along will undoubtedly always imply a certain amount of obligation, but that obligation should be only a tacit...
...until the written record began to read like a chapter in the Old Testament, "And So-and-so bequeaths it unto What's-his-name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto Thing-a-my," and so they go on bequeathing, until the legacy comes to an end with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because he wanted it to keep with the room," for, two dollars. It was not till eight years...
...Index is now ready. The advertisements have been banished to the end of the volume, and the general list of the students has been given the last, instead of the first place...
Reserving the matter of greatest interest till the end, the Dean concludes his report with some remarks on voluntary attendance at recitation. After a number of tables of statistics concerning the attendance of Seniors, which will no doubt prove highly entertaining to the members of the three lower classes, the report closes as follows...