Word: ending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...slow and ponderous progress of the world, that the delusion ceases, and we begin to regard our life in its true relations to what has gone before and is to come. Whatever may be our philosophy or religious belief, the fact of the dissolution of the body at the end of a space of time which is as nothing to the eternity which has preceded and will succeed it is one of supreme import, which, as rational creatures, we must take into account in forming any belief...
...convenience to the crews, etc., in gaining the time from 2 to 4; and the argument that a man can do his three hours' work in the evening better, if he has already had an hour's exercise, than if he puts that hour's exercise at the end, that is, from 10 to 11. On the opposite side it is argued that late dinners are unhealthy; that the time from 2 to 4 is gained at the expense of that from 6 to 8, and, by the change, hard students, to do their three hours' work in the evening...
...should be very glad, at the end of this month and a half of the trial of voluntary recitations, to lay before our readers some report relative to the success or failure of the plan. This, unfortunately, is impossible, as several of the instructors have not yet returned their lists of absences. We have been allowed a cursory examination of the books, however, and so few are the marks on many of the pages that we can with safety congratulate the Senior Class on the way they have started under the new system; there is no cause for discouragement...
...control of the club who take no interest in it at all, but were simply chosen on the spur of the moment; and the second is open to the objection that the club might get into the hands of a clique, who, instead of forming a chess-club, might end by practically constituting a social club, in which a person's ability as a chess-player would be among the last grounds of his eligibility as a member. In this connection it would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind...
...thought that such a shapeless end...